I don’t stop on a 2 lane road if a person is starting to cross the street from the other lane outside of a crosswalk.
As a regular runner on busy NJ roads, I often am faced with drivers who are pausing to let me by in places when I would prefer them to just move on.
Unless I am absolutely sure of my safety, I wave them on. A safe situation would be when the person is totally stopped, on a small side road, no other traffic, and looking directly at me while waving. Contrast that with someone who is waving at me, but there is glare on the windshield preventing me from seeing where they are looking, and I see some other cars sneaking around them.
I don’t care who has the right of way–if it looks sketchy I prefer to live, so I wave them on through.
This thread reminds me of another of my peeves–when someone includes their title as part of their name–“My name is Captain Kirk”, “My name is Lieutenant Dan”, “My name is Doctor Zhivago”, etc. No. No it isn’t. Unless you show me a birth certificate with “Captain”, “Lieutenant”, or “Doctor” in the space for surname, that darned well* isn’t *your name.
If no crosswalk, was it a legal place to cross, at a intersection, etc?
So, either he was right, in yielding or you were jaywalking.
Oooo, you just reminded me of one. I teach at the community colleges. A couple of my colleagues refer to themselves as “Mr. Soandso” in their syllabi, on notes posted at their offices, etc. It irritates the hell out of me. Dude, this isn’t high school. It’s college. You’re not special, get over yourself. In this day and age, students call us by our first names. Hell, when I was first in college 30 years ago, that’s how it was. And one of them is a young guy, maybe 30 or 35. To be fair, I don’t know if these teachers actually require their students to address them as “Mr.,” but still.
In a similar vein. One time I was in a Walgreens and observed a few of the employees address who I assume was the manager as “Mr. Ng.” I had to resist the temptation to go over to him and say “dude, you’re a fucking retail manager! Who the hell do you think you are?!” FTR, I was the general manager of a restaurant at the time, so I was exactly at his level. I never would have entertained the idea that my employees call me by anything but my first name.
When passing random co-workers in the hall, I don’t like the: “Hi, how are you”?
“Good, how are you?” “Good, thanks”, as you’re both quickly passing & don’t really give a care how the other one really is.
I just thought of a new Pet Peeve. “Stupid” comedy, where the protagonist is really stupid. Get Smart (altho Agent 99 and the opening sequence almost redeemed that show) Archer, Dumb & Dumber, and this new BBC broad.
Annoys the fuck out of me. I guess it is because there are just too many stupid people in the real world.
When showing a co-worker how to do something on the computer, and I’m going through several steps, and I say “Click on this” and they say “LEFT click?” If I meant “right click” I’d say so. To me “Click” has always meant “Left Click” by default.
The same goes for “Slash” – it always means “Forward Slash” unless you specify “Back Slash.” However there seems to be major confusion on this. I recall many newscasters and announcers in commercials giving website addresses using the “Back Slash” terminology when they meant “Forward Slash.” This occurred often for some years, but recently I think people have finally come to their senses. Maybe they were confused as to whether the top or the bottom of the slash was to the left or to the right.
One more: saying or writing/typing “without further ADIEU”!
Just my little pet peeves.
People who spell ketchup as ‘catsup.’
I have many as a science teacher.
In particular, people who misspell the word NUCLEUS. It’s spelled the same way as it sounds. We even practice the spelling it class. And still…
Also, students with two years of chemistry who write the formula of carbon dioxide as CO**2 (exponent - you know what I mean).
Hey, I always liked catsup better than ketchup. Can’t find any at the stores nowadays. I still contend that filbert is a better word than hazelnut. Hazelnut this, hazelnut that- it all tastes like filberts!!
For subscript, put “sub” in the HTML bracket thingies. For superscript, put “sup.” Thus, CO[sup]2[/sup] vs CO[sub]2[/sub].
People who say or write “another thing coming.” It’s THINK, people!!! The phrase was a humorous solecism back when it was invented. If you think X, you’ve got another THINK coming.
Maybe they are quoting Judas Priest?
My science teacher peeves:
Mispronouncing meiosis as Me-oh-sis
Mispronouncing any -ae plural (-ae is pronounced ee, as in fee)
That kids are taught butterflies spin silken cocoons
I can’t blame the kids for these. It’s the fault of teachers who have forgotten that there are glossaries in the back of textbooks.
Is there any reason restaurant chefs can’t remove the tails from shrimps before they are served? It’s difficult for the customer to do that with a fork and dinner knife, and it’s awkward to use one’s fingers; by contrast the chef handles food all day as that’s their job. So why can’t they do it?
Or do most people just chew up and swallow the shells long with the shrimp?
I eat shrimp by hand. Sometimes if they are deep fried, yes, i eat the tails,but not often.
It drives me nuts how the definite article “the” gets capitalized all the time now in names. When I was a kid, we listened to the Beatles. Now, only in recent years, decades after the band ceased existing, they’re supposed to be “The” Beatles. Long ago we read the New York Times, but now it’s supposed to be “The” New York Times. Lately people have started proliferating the illicit capitalization into madness, to the point where you can see “the” capitalized in the middle of a sentence, no matter what the name is: random example, “we visited The Grand Canyon” instead of “the Grand Canyon.”
Am I the only one who can’t stand this stupid trend?
Pretty much. 
I’ve had prawns cooked on pizza before with the tails on. You have to pick it off, remove the tail, and then put it back on.
What on earth are they thinking?