And he’s still alive? Impressive control on your behalf!
My mom is an extremely helpful person when she comes to visit - I had to have a talk with her about how I cook by myself about 310 nights of the year, and she isn’t helping when she is under my feet while I’m cooking. “Helping” is sitting in the dining room talking to me, and staying the hell away from the cooking zone. 
I hate when Stephen Colbert, in his opening monologue, pantomimes holding an object and then always has to pretend to set the object down just out of camera range, always accompanied by sound effects from the band. Now that’s a petty pet peeve!
It’s probably not just me, but I feel like I want to punch something whenever I call any large company with an elaborate phone menu, and…
Well actually that’s it right there.
Still…
It’s even worse when they keep playing those “bippity bippity bippity” sound FX in the background as they transfer you from one option to the next.
I don’t know why that aggravates me so much, but it does.
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I refuse to watch a movie if the bad guy is bald and all the good guys aren’t.
Alas, this has prevented me from watching quite a few well-reviewed movies.
And when you find out some site do that on purpose to make you click on things you don’t intend to click on…
How did I miss this thread before? I have a huge list of stuff that peeves me.
Expiration dates on stuff you buy that are super tiny, or printed in dark grey on black, or hidden so you can’t find them.
Cars and trucks without mudflaps. Why isn’t there a law against this? They throw rocks in all weather, and they make your windshield a gooey mess if there’s the slightest precipitation.
Software that refuses to put in obvious features. Example: Winrar. Unless they fixed it recently, there’s no way to set a default location for “Extract To.” You have to tell it every damn time.
Bathtubs with rims that don’t slope down even a little bit, so water just stays up there and grows mold. FFS, the bathtub is like 5000 years old, why can’t they make them right?
Bags for pretzels or chips that split all the way down if you make the slightest tear at the top.
I could be here all night, but that’s enough.
My car has a conveniently fold-down rear seat for timea when I have to transport bulky or long items.
Or maybe just long items, since this is what it looks like:
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“Walk back”. The word you’re looking for is “retract”. “Walk back” makes one sound like a child.
I almost can’t believe this pet peeve of mine is a private one, but it evidently is. Nowhere online do I see anyone else complaining about something which I’d have expected to cause a groundswell of consumer dissatisfaction and annoyance that that would lead manufacturers making a minor change to their products. I refer to the overbright LED lights that seem to come with every single small electronic device or appliance these days, some blinking and some not. We just had security installed at our house, and where the cameras plug into the wall sockets there are now bright green lights, sometimes flashing and sometimes shining continuously. These lights are bright enough to cast shadows; when blinking they remind me of those noir movies where the characters live in a sleezy hotel with “BAR” or “LIQUOR” signs flashing their beams into the room.
And bluetooth headsets. Seriously, am I the only person in the world who likes to listen to stuff on my phone before I fall asleep? It would seem so, because nobody else seems the least bit bothered by a blinking LED that lights up the whole room. Principally I don’t want to disturb my wife who is a light sleeper, but even if I’m by myself it annoys me.
Likewise, bathtubs that are perpendicular at both ends, so it’s impossible to lean back comfortably. I sometimes think such tubs must have been intended for a parent to bathe several toddlers at once.
I was driving down the main commercial/retail street in town, with strip malls, stores, restaurants and so forth on either side of the street. In order to improve traffic flow, the town created a left-turn only lane in the middle of the street, specifically so people turning left (either northbound or southbound) can sit there and wait for an opening to complete a left turn. So why was I stuck behind someone the other day who was sitting in the through lane with his left-turn signal flashing?
(And a few years ago, I was sitting in the left-turn only lane, waiting for an opening in the northbound traffic, when another driver was driving directly at me in the left-turn only lane. I couldn’t get out of his way, so I just sat there and waited to see what he’d do. Fortunately he turned left before we made contact. But still, as far as I know, you’re not meant to enter the left-turn only lane until you’re at the driveway you’re trying to enter.)
You aren’t the only one.
Black electrical tape is my weapon of choice for this problem.
No, I’m with you. I’ll add a peeve of my own about them, that may well be just me (though I doubt I’m that unusual): even when the LEDs are meant to be giving me useful information, I frequently can’t interpret it because I’m somewhat colourblind. There are LEDs that even I can see are quite clearly red or green, but nine times out of ten what I get are tiny pinpoints if light that are orange and yellow-green instead — neither of which I can see as anything other than “yellowish”. I’ve got several devices that indicate they’re fully charged “when the red LED changes to green” — so that’s me fucked.
On another topic, I’ve recently developed a strong aversion to a number of synonyms for “eating”. “Snacking on” something might be barely acceptable (though I will judge you), but don’t tell me you’re “munching on” or “chomping on” something, unless you positively want me to focus on the noise you’re making doing it. If you tell me you’re “chowing down on” something, I will absolutely have a mental picture of a dog at its food bowl. And not in a good way.
As minor7flat5 said, no, you are not alone. You can sticky tape them over (or partly over, for the ones who actually have a purpose), or use a little dab of blu-tack. I bought an external hard drive case from another member of a computer forum and he had made a little cover/corner out of foam to sit on the top and cover over the array of lights across the top on the front.
The whole thing perplexes me. Why does everything need to be lit up so you can see them from space? (I read or heard something that says you shouldn’t have all this lit up stuff in your bedroom, because it messes with sleep, you should have a dark room. Yeh, good luck with that, these days.)
Roundabouts instead of 4-way stops.
Wait, are you saying you’d prefer four-way stops over roundabouts, or vice versa? Because I have to deal with four-way stops every day and would much prefer a properly designed roundabout.
I hate roundabouts here in Indianapolis. I suppose it’s partly because people don’t know how to use them. People get in the wrong lane all the time-- they’ll go around three exits in the outside lane, so you can’t pull on, and other people will treat the yield signs like stop signs, and pull out in front of you, so you have to slam on your brakes when you are already on the circle, causing the person behind you to screech and honk, because they were following too closely-- I’m terrified I’m going to get rear-ended on one of these things-- or T-boned.
Then there are the people who don’t use turn signals, so you don’t know they are pulling off. I guess they figure you should know, because they are in the outside lane, but how should I know they aren’t one of those people who drives around in the outside lane?
And Indy has several double roundabouts (and one notorious clover-leaf one), which my GPS cannot figure out, so if I don’t already know where I’m going (and if I did, why would I be using the GPS?) I end up turning too soon or too late. Getting back around to try again is really hard, even when there isn’t much traffic. I go out of my way to avoid the thing, if I know they are coming up, but I don’t always know.
This was one of the reasons Texas went to inside front windshield registration tags. I have experienced the plate sticker scene - cutting them a with a razor blade many times before then. Had tags peeled off the rear plate, broken into pieces. Then had to go to TXDOT to get replacements. PIA. Some LEO’s in other states will pull you over for expired, but if you point out the registration sticker is just below safety inspection sticker all is good. They still will check you out about not being a miscreant however.
Others may or may not have experienced this, but it’s recent, at least around here. Most groceries now have two sizes of carts (buggies for you southerners). I usually grab the smaller one since I never fill up a big one. However, the small ones have much less overhang at the top, so it makes it MUCH easier to stub a toe on the wheel or bottom rack. It’s worse in the summer since I habitually wear sandals.
Has anyone else noticed this?
No, but I have short legs. I LOVE the little ones, because they are so much easier to maneuver, and you don’t block an aisle with them like you do with the big ones. I hardly ever even fill up the little one.
The only time I get a big one is right before a holiday. My son goes through a lot of food, but that just means lots of trips to the store, not lots of stuff at once.