I hate it when people put signs on doors. I know you’re trying to catch my attention, but how am I supposed to read the damn sign without getting hit by said door? Also, UNLOCK BOTH EFFING DOORS!!
Pkbites, my state has recently gotten rid of registration stickers. Now I’m constantly worried I’ll get nailed for driving an unregistered vehicle.
Oh, hell yeah, that door thing is so stupid. You are place of business open your doors. The flashing and led lighted billboards that you can’t read, cause, I don’t know, you’re DRIVING A CAR, on an interstate. They just piss me off.
Only you? You sure there ain’t nobody else who peeves about this?
I guess we have to take that one off the list then.
My work commute is currently 15 to 20 minutes and I typically listen to the local classic rock station while driving. Some of that time it taken up by commercials, which is annoying, but what I really hate is when they decide to play a Rush song. I then have to turn the radio off and usually forget to turn it back on by the time I reach work or home, or the damn song is so long that I never get the chance.
Yea, I agree the door thing is a universal peeve. From my own investigation on it, I have noticed people trying to go in those doors and cursing under their breath.
Norman doors
my particular pet peeve is “RIP.” It just strikes me as someone being to lazy to write “rest in peace.”
I hate when I get ketchup on myself. This usually happens when my teenage son has made a mess of some kind and left a bit of ketchup somewhere I don’t expect it. I end up feeling like those people who shriek and freak out when they see a snake or have a large spider on them. “Get if off me. Get if OFF OF ME!” I can’t stand the stuff and it feels weird.
Nitpick it actually means Requiescat in pace. While it translates to rest in peace the fact that it is not English is why one finds it in non English speaking countries also.
The letters that spell OCD are in the wrong order.
This happens all over the U.S. and I hate it:
While at a restaurant you’ll be conversing with your dinner guest, or worse yet have a mouth full of food and the waitress will pop up and say [most annoying voice you can imagine] “how’s everything tasting!?!” :mad:
I have found that in a lot of other countries the staff positions themselves at a station and waits for you to wave them over. Until then they leave you the hell alone and allow you to enjoy your meal and the company you are with.
I’ve gone so far as to tell wait staff after our meal has been brought “if we need something we’ll call you over. Otherwise we are alright for now”. But it never sinks into their skull what I’m actually saying.
My door-related pet peeve; I walk up to the multiplex and pull on the right of the pair of doors to enter. A person or group trying to exit takes this as an invitation to go out that door, which is on their left. I’m thinking, “Fuck you. You should be going out the door on your right, so you can leave and I can enter without needing to cross paths.”
And another one, from back in college. Several hundred students are leaving the lecture hall, where at least six doors lead out. One is propped open for some reason, so the majority of the students crowd through that one. I just walk up to one of the other doors and push it open, rather than queuing up to use the one door.
Lots of annoying driving habits. How do so few people know how to make a left turn? I see so many people either turn too quickly–meaning their car does a 45-degree beeline to the cross street, which then means they have to hit the brakes to make the turn at the end–or they swing wide and then overcorrect.
Or I see people braking, and I can spot the ass-end of the car rising and rising as they come almost to a halt, which then slams down at the end. If they eased off the brakes just a tad the passengers would be much more comfortable.
Or merging, where I see people waiting for an open slot to merge into, except that they slowly creep down the merge lane while doing so. Meaning they’ve eliminated all the space they had to get their car up to the speed of traffic and merge properly. Now they have to wait for a huge space because they can only accelerate in the traffic lane (and they probably still force someone in traffic to hit their brakes because the merger didn’t floor it).
Or people that are about to move into a left turn lane, but start braking long beforehand, even though the turn lane has a ton of empty space. They could turn into the lane and brake there without disrupting traffic in the thru lanes. Sure, if there are lots of cars stacked up or it’s a short lane there’s no choice. But people seem to think they have to slow to 25 just to move into the lane regardless of what’s there.
For those annoyed at one door of a pair being locked: One door has a key-lock on it, and the other is locked to the floor and ceiling using little levers on the end of the door, only accessible when the other one is open. To unlock both, you use the key to unlock the one, and then flip the levers on the other. To unlock only one, you just use the key. Thus, given two doors, if one is unlocked, it’ll be the one with the keyhole.
For mine: When there’s been something (a paper or sign or whatever) hanging on the wall by tape, and the paper itself has been taken down, but bits of the tape are still up. I feel compelled to peel off the tape whenever I see that.
You’re not the only one. I’m compelled to remove those little bits of tape when I find them remaining on a door, or a table or whatever.
Uh oh, ineligible for the thread! 
Mine is when I make an attempt at humor or sarcasm IRL that is obviously, clearly not meant to be taken seriously but is. real life example:
Manager at work: “They are anticipating a lot of people participating in the Cure for Cancer walk tomorrow”.
Me: “But if they cure cancer think of all the oncologists who will be out of work.”
Co-worker: “No, that’s not going to happen any time soon.”
mmm
Cabinets or drawers left open.
The sound my dog makes when he licks himself.
When I’m checking out at the grocery store & the cashier makes comments on my food and asks or tries to guess what I’m making. “Oh looks like you’re making a big pot of chili on this cold day!”.
When I’m driving in the car with the radio on & some commercial plays a siren or a honking sound. It always startles me and should be illegal.
I could go on and on…
Never worked in the industry, but this is so universal that I suspect that many restaurant managers promote this behavior. However, I don’t want to say “don’t bother me” I want them to change the question to a useful one, like “Can I get you anything else?” This is the most likely type of question to fill an actual need, instead of shilling for compliments on the food.
I didn’t even have to think about this one, but I doubt that it is unique to me:
People who park in fire lanes at a shopping center. I’m not talking about standing (sitting in your car waiting for someone or for a curbside pick-up), I’m talking about entitled a-holes who figure everyone else is a chump for parking in actual parking spaces and walking an extra 20 yards.
Got to buy a gift for the spouse? Just park right at the front door and save a few steps. It’s (usually) illegal, but who cares, right? Emergency vehicles? What are those? Handicapped people have to walk around me? So what? Screw everyone, m’kay?
One time, I made a comment at work about Maryland drivers (we were in DC). A colleague I had clearly offended asked, “and where are you from?”
I said, “ no one knows, they found me in a basket on the banks of the Potomac when I was 42years old.”
To which another colleague responded, “nuh-uh.”