Yes, and don’t ask me for my phone number. I give you my money, you give me your goods and that is the end of our relationship. Do not plan on calling me. EVER.
I hate it when people don’t understand the “Y” system of checkout when it’s crowded. You know, there’s a counter and two cashiers, and a line forms down the middle- the first person in the middle line then goes to the next available register, and everything goes smoothly.
I was waiting in this sort of line at CVS today- I was at the head of the middle line- and some man comes up and stands directly behind the person to the left. Then some woman comes and stands behind him. Hello! I quickly moved to the left register when it became clear, and I think the people figured it out.
Seriously, now.
Also, when I’m shooting a film in a public area, I’m fine with people walking by in the background. What I’m not fine with is people running by and waving, or stopping and looking right at the camera. Thanks alot, dipshit, now you’ve ruined my entire shot!
Harrumph.
I hate the phrase “Pet Peeve”. It really bugs me, and I don’t know why.
I HATE slow walkers. Get out of the way.
I can’t stand incorrect grammar. One that I hear daily that makes me cringe is “We don’t got no…” ARRRG!!!
I never realised that there was a right way…Is there a sience to it, or are there big directional signs that i have been missing all these years! :eek:
*girls in shoes that “clip-clop-clip-clop”
*people who drag there feet on the ground
*girls who make-out with other girls for attention ( the act is hot, but the concept is discusting)
*People who chew with there mouths open
*dumb commercials
*little card bored advertisments that fall out of magazines when you are standing in line at a store
*a dirty face, dirty hands
*anything that sounds like sandpaper
*People who leave nasty little notes ( like: DO THE DISHES) instead of saying it to your face
*rude costumer service people
*last but not least-my brain…once i notice that someone or something is doing one of these things i go nuts…
Funny you posted that. I’ve done my leaves twice this season, the first with my blower and the second time I raked. Raking them took me 15 minutes. Blowing them took me about 30.
People who say “Anywho” or “… but I digress”
When people think they are cool by ending words with z - wordz, dudez, forumz, etc - or starting them with ph - phat, phreak (phuck off!)
Use of other stupid internet slang where every other letter is capitalized – WaReZ, and other assorted garbage.
When people say “nuke-you-lar” instead of “nu-cle-ar”, or “axe” instead of “ask”.
When a whole group of people insists on walking (like in a store or somewhere with limited space) in a big horizontal line, very slowly, so that nobody can get around them from either side.
Assholes who fly up behind me on the interstate, flashing their lights if I happen to be in the left lane, when the right lane is completely clear and they could easily fly by me with no obstacles whatsoever (and usually I’m already a little over the speed limit at this point, so not poking along by any means). (And I won’t listen to any crap about passing lanes, etc – I’m talking about when there is a completely clear lane, so just freaking take it!)
Students who constantly ask me, after every test, “Are you going to curve the grades?” – when they really have no idea what a real grading “curve” means and are really asking, “Will you add extra points that we didn’t earn, so that everybody can have better grades?” (these are college students, BTW).
People who whine about how George Bush pronounces things. Jesus, guys, back in the Roman times Gaius Marius was mocked because he spoke Greek with an Italian “hayseed” accent. Haven’t we gotten over insulting people based on this kind of stupidity by now? It’s been 2000 years! I don’t like GB anymore than the next foaming-at-the-mouth liberal atheist, but at least I can find slightly more intelligent things to complain about!
People who whine about the fine points of the English language in general. Language changes. That’s the whole point. As long as the change doesn’t actually make the meaning incomprehensible, who cares? I don’t mean to pick on the earlier poster, but I think everyone can figure out what “recommend me a _____” means.
These last 2 are probably unique to my own wonderful family 
My mother. Mom, I love you dearly, but why must you lock the upper lock of the door? The key does not work very well at all. Last time I came home I had to go in through the back door – which was, even more frusteratingly, unlocked. We don’t live in some kind of horrendous crime-ridden ghetto. We live in rural Oregon on a dead-end street full of retired people. The last crime in my neighborhood was the great mail theft of '96, ferchrissake. Sure, lock the door, but there’s no need to lock the top lock! Please! It drives my father insane as well, and I’m sure it will drive my sister insane too when she has her own key.
The rest of my family. I love y’all; you are wonderful people. However, if you don’t want people to walk in on you when you are taking a shower or using the bathroom, then CLOSE AND LOCK THE DAMN DOOR! This is why we have locks, and doors for that matter. It gives a hint to everyone. I mean, if you really hate locking doors cause you’re afraid you’ll be trapped in there forever or something, then at least close the frickin’ door! I don’t want to interrupt you anymore than you want to be interruped! Jeeeeezus.
It peeves me when drivers pull up to a red light - so far that they block the crosswalk.
Half the time, I’d rather walk behind their damn car than in front of it, and into traffic.
Sheeesh. Don’t you see those white lines?
If this particular pet peeve has already been posted, I’m not sorry.
I thought the same thing. I never knew there was a right direction…
Red and green next to each other. Nothing could be more wrong.
Customers who think their god’s gift to the world because they can read my name badge. And then make sure that I know it. Ad nauseum.
Excuse me, gex gex can you help me?
(No, I’m just the store guy in the uniform with the namebadge that says the stores name on it)
Well, gex gex, can you tell me where the Super-Automated Squidgy Waxers are, please, gex gex?
Oh thankyou, gex gex.
Oh wow, you can read my name! How good are you! Lucky you said it so many times too, after all, I might have thought you were talking to someone else!
Freakin’ idiots.
It drives me insane when the car behind me honks the horn the second the light turns green. If you do this to me, I will sit through the entire green light just to piss you off.
My mother, who insists on pronouncing curb as curbin and striped as stripe-ed.
Nothing’s wrong with the way you wrote it. Previously it was written/said “Recommend ME a camera”. Essentially, I think that it’s incorrect because you are telling someone (not asking) to recommend YOU to a camera. For example, “Nikon, I recommend Jabba to shoot your photographs.”
I hate it when the SDMB doesn’t place your reply next to what you’re replying to. Of course, I’m sure it was my fault anyway.
Honey, what you do PISSES my brother off to no end! BTW, erictelevision hates it when celebrities refer to themselves in the 3rd person!
How about the fact that these new plastic tubes don’t really roll up well anyway, so it’s hard to keep the remaining toothpaste near the top anyway?
Having to fish out five dollar bills from my wallet and lay them on
counter one by one to buy popcorn at a movie. It’s not the price, it’s our piddlyshit small-denomination paper currency. In what other developed-world country do you have to deal with paper money that won’t even get you on the bus in most big cities?
None.
For the love of God people, let’s ditch the dollar bill. It’s LONG overdue.
Hi EricTV Honey,
Why won’t your darling brother speak for himself? Sorry to piss him off (and I guess you vicariously). What did I do? Was it the grammar correction?
You may look back at the thread and note that someone ASKED for an opinion on the whole “recommend to me VS recommend me” issue. I merely obliged.
Now, if it’s screwing up the thread that he (maybe you too) are pissed about I already admitted fault to that and your condesending (unless I really am your honey) reply wasn’t warranted.
Sorry to upset your brother (and maybe you too) but there wasn’t any intent and since this is a peeve thread— you’ve added to mine. I hate it when people “fly off the handle” and get irritable without taking a minute to think/observe/listen to what’s going on.
Um, I think erictv was actually addressing Honey’s post about sitting at a green light . . .
Rain on my grocery bags.
People singing to me in the morning when I haven’t had enough sleep. (Mum, this means YOU)
some spelling / grammar errors, for some reason. (especially my own)
I agree with a bunch of other pet peeves posted int this thread, as well.
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