This thread has me laughing hysterically at all the things I agree with and can’t stand either! I love the way some of you have worded your posts!
Or when they “friend” you, then “unfriend” you 6 months later. If you “friend” me, then please don’t “unfriend” me later.
Calling us names is classic of a bully/troll on line
You dont know me bud-at all. Dont presume. You dont know me from Jack
If it were a letter to a lawyer or a resume, you better believe I’m going to use proper grammar, spelling etc
For this board or anything else resembling a message board, no. Are you one of those up in an ivory tower that thinks they are better than anyone else OR is it you love to play games online with your puppets of a discussion board?? (not saying anyone is a puppet online but some treat/think of fellow posters as puppets to play with to get their jollies.
This is the only response “you” will have from e on this since I know how the game goes, ever so intimately.
This discussion has reminded me of something else that irritates me more than it should: 10$ instead of $10. Yes, I know one says “Ten dollars” but the accepted notation is $10. When you write it the other way, you’re wrong. Period. End of discussion. Stop it.
Dammit, now I’m irritated about it yet again. 
I’ve never seen that before…would bother me too!
As opposed to a stick in the ass, pedantic nitpicking grammar nazi? I’ll take it!
People from our side the USA use 10USD, maybe 10$ is from someone not from here?
I’ve seen local classified ads or hand-lettered signs using the 10$ affectation, so it’s not necessarily a non-American thing. At a minimum, I’ve seen it in FL and MD.
every trick, tip or shortcut is not a “hack”. I know people like to appropriate technical words to make themselves sounds smart, but occasionally they do the opposite.
I live in a French-speaking area, and 10$ is how it’s written in French.
Which sort of relates to a pet peeve I have: using the word “French” to mean bad language (“Pardon my French.”) Not sure why that expression annoys me. Maybe because I know actual French.
Do people who chew gum know they look like drooling idiots and just don’t care? While chewing sounds make me crazy anyway (thanks, misophonia!) it’s not just the sound that’s annoying to me. Even those who manage to keep their drooling craw shut while the gum’s in there, annoy me by just looking like stupid cud-chewing cows.
I’m putting this here, but it’s not petty.
People who are 1) late, 2) don’t show up at all, and don’t call/text and tell you 1) or 2).
I’m not talking so much about friends, although I have one girlfriend that I have lunch with several times a month at the same time at the same restaurant and in 15 years, she has been 10-20 mins late every single time. I can adjust to that.
But a guy was supposed to come yesterday to give me an estimate on yard work and he just didn’t show up or text. Today a different guy is supposed to come and talk to me about installing a gate. I texted him this morning and he said he’d be here at 4:00. It’s now 20 mins past that. Today, it’s so easy to text and say, “I’m running late,” or “I’m never coming because I’ve decided I hate you,” but most of the time you hear nothing.
I’m one of the prompt/reliable people of the world and I’m virtually never late. I don’t have to try; it just comes naturally to me. Don’t know why. Sometimes I deliberately try to be late, just to be more normal, but it doesn’t seem to work. I wind up on time or early anyway.
And if I say I’ll be somewhere either to meet you, to pick you up from the doctor, to feed your cat while you’re away, I absolutely will do it. The only thing that would stop me is literally if I were dead. And if I’m dead, you can be sure I’ll call you from the great beyond.
Public Service Announcement:
If you ask someone a question, don’t then tune them out when they’re trying to answer it. Especially when you’re a boss and asked your subordinate a question. It’s annoying to have to repeat myself when you come up for air and admit that you weren’t listening.
K? Thx!
Or the Wolf Blitzer phenomenon: Don’t keep asking the same question again and again, even though the person answered it the first time.
Oh, God, my mother does this. I know she has a hearing problem, but the least she could do is tell me she didn’t hear instead of just ignoring me.
It’s all Greek to me.
One of my many pet peeves? Non-capitalization of Ls in signs:
FRESH CHICKEN ON SAIE !
“SAIE”? What is “SAIE”??
When Im passing someone in a hallway, lobby, wherever, and despite the fact that at least 15 feet are between us, they act as if they’re avoiding a certain collision with me by jumping back or quickly scurrying off to the side. After enough times of this happening, it really starts to irritate me. Sometimes I just want to stop, turn around and say to them, “seriously?!”
Or maybe you should get closer to them. Run over their feet? Give them something to jump about!
Follow-up to the lateness gripe. I contacted another landscaper on Monday to come out and look at my yard since the first guy stood me up. She replied promptly to my email and said she’d try to come out Wednesday (today). I said could she let me know whether it would be morning or afternoon. Didn’t hear back. This morning came and went and I heard nothing.
Finally I emailed her in the early afternoon and asked if she was still planning on coming so I didn’t keep sitting around waiting to hear from her. She replied fairly promptly that she got sick and was just now starting to feel better.
Well, why didn’t she tell me? :smack: I just don’t understand. I don’t care if people can’t come, have to reschedule or just change their minds.
WHY CAN’T THEY CALL/TEXT YOU AND LET YOU KNOW??
That’s not a rhetorical question. Does anyone know the answer to it? I’m stumped.
I agree.
Now, if they’re only gonna be 10 minutes or so late, due to traffic, i am not gonna expect them to pull off the road, stop the car, text me, then get back on, making them even more late.
But if it’s known before starting they are gonna be really late or not show up, then it must be communicated.
In this case, it’s really a Good thing as you now now not to hire those losers.
Yes! I could run over their feet, back up and run over them again and they only reaction would be “Oh, I’m sorry!!” 