# This broken world: vent about your pet peeves and irritations. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850 "2014-08-29T11:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/41 "2014-08-29T23:03:38Z")
Cell phones. What the fuck is wrong with people today that they can’t put these fucking things down for longer than 10 minutes? Went to a SoundGarden concert the other night and all the fuck around me are assholes staring at their fucking cell phones! ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/42 "2014-08-29T23:14:58Z")
My nephew was living with his father my brother and he moved out from his daddy’s home in Minnesota to Wisconsin. They upped his insurance rate because he had moved. OK. They also screwed up and changed his father’s address to Wisconsin raising his rates too. He got a hold of his agent and dressed him down good, assuring him that he hadn’t moved, so his address was corrected in the computer and his rate went up once more. When he talked to the agent the agent looked it up and told him that the rate for Minnesota was more than Wisconsin. SO why did they raise it when they thought I had moved to Wisc? No real answer, but when the agent chased it down he was told that moving back and forth to Wisconsin had caused the rate to go up. Finally they thought they had it straightened out when he got a bill for $00.00 which reflected the final additional rate after all the bouncing around. So he ignored it. Next month his bill came again for $00.00. He called the agent. Agent said to ignore it, but it came next month saying if it wasn’t paid immediately the policy would be cancelled! So he sent in a check filled out for the amount of $00.00. And that was the end of that. 6 months of confusion over nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/43 "2014-08-29T23:47:00Z")
Politics. Just…_ **FUCKING** _ politics. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/44 "2014-08-29T23:47:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Hey - your turn signal’s on. > > You’re not turning. You’re not changing lanes. You’ve had your blinker on for the last 10 miles. That is known in Florida by the blue haired ladies as an eventual Left turn! ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/45 "2014-08-29T23:50:01Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Kids named Mykynzy. And Madisin, Braydon, Ashtin, Carlee, Destinye, ShyAnne and the like. Fucking morons. Give your kids names that don’t look like you grabbed some random syllables and threw them at a wall. I met a family with kids named Josephine, Alexander and Louisa while on vacation. Now that’s how you name children. How about the kid named La-a. How do you pronounce that? THe Dash isn’t silent, It is pronounced Ladasha! ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/46 "2014-08-29T23:51:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Mother: “I’m going to count to three! One!..Two!..” > > Kid: “Great stuff, mom. What other tricks do you do?” > > I’ve never heard one get to three and it’s one of life’s abiding mysteries as to what actually happens if someone ever gets there. I’m guessing some kind of supernova or a guest disciplinary appearance by Satan. You just wait till your Dad gets home! ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/47 "2014-08-29T23:53:16Z")
> [@JuliaSqueezer](#): > > Probably a tiny and insignificant but one that continually grinds my gears: shitty packaging. > > Not just gallons of styrofoam peanuts in boxes, but strips of tape that stick not only to the packaging but the item itself, so you’re left with a sticky residue that needs to be soaked off with Goo Gone or paint thinner. > > Food packaging is often egregiously bad. Frustratingly impenetrable plastic , layers and strips of it, everywhere. Not to mention foil seals with microscopic little tabs you’re supposed to pull, but you need pliers or forceps to get them off. Jars that cannot be opened without whacking them on the edge of the bench. “Easy open” tabs or flaps that are glued shut and end up looking like someone chewed the edges once you manage to open them. > > I won’t even mention blister packs. The devil’s work. > > Some horrendous packaging makes me long for a tiny little chain saw that I can fire up and use, instead of wobbly knives and dull scissors. How about the child proof pill bottles that only a kid can open. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/48 "2014-08-29T23:59:28Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > - silly rituals and ceremonies that may very well be full of ‘heritage’ and ‘symbolism’ but honestly, just look silly and could be brought up to date. Have you seen how they [close the border between India and Pakistan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0ue-XGl9c)? Couldn’t they just close a gate or something? > > Over to you! Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has just made my list of things to see before dying. I’d been on the cusp about going to India until watching that. Great OG! how I miss Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/49 "2014-08-30T00:11:17Z")
My all-time worst aggravation occurs at left-turn lights which only turn green for about 5 seconds or so, leaving enough time for 1, _maybe_ 2 cars to make it thru (3 could make it only if the timing of everyone was perfectly aligned and everyone sped thru). In these situations, some clueless airhead _always_ seems to be at the head of the line and they never realize it when the light first turns green, and they sit there wasting all that precious “green” time, until scooting thru the stale yellow. Leaving everybody else sitting in the left turn lane. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/50 "2014-08-30T00:30:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Mother: “I’m going to count to three! One!..Two!..” > > Kid: “Great stuff, mom. What other tricks do you do?” > > I’ve never heard one get to three and it’s one of life’s abiding mysteries as to what actually happens if someone ever gets there. I’m guessing some kind of supernova or a guest disciplinary appearance by Satan. I just have to answer this one. My wife and I would count to ten. We had no idea what happened at 10 and the kids obviously knew that (and now they’re grown and have kids of their own and I asked them), but they also knew that it meant we were seriously pissed off and it always worked. As for my pet peeves: - voice mail systems, also holds. One company, Air Canada asks you to enter your phone number and says we will call you back in x minutes–and does. - Lame web sites, especially when trying to buy something. Air Canada is one of the lamest–and they time you out before you finish all too often. - Blister packs on drugs. - Continued on page x, newspapers and some magazines. New Yorker never does it, why does the NYTimes seem to love them so? - People who leave their shopping carts strewn all over the parking lot. - Airports. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/51 "2014-08-30T00:31:23Z")
There is no such thing as “fat-free half and half” or “fat free sour cream.” There just isn’t. Not possible. If it doesn’t have fat (from cream), it’s not half-and-half or sour cream. It’s some other thing. Coffee creamer, or onion dip base, maybe. Not fat free cream-containing item. The fact that there are products with these labels in the grocery store just irritates the heck out of me, quite irrationally. It’s just WRONG WRONG WRONG! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/52 "2014-08-30T00:43:19Z")
Oh yes, like “White chocolate” No such thing. If it doesn’t have cocoa powder, which is _ **brown** _, it’s not chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/53 "2014-08-30T00:51:48Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > And turning on your turn signal just 5 feet before your turn DOES. NOT. COUNT. Or after you’ve already started your turn. Or after you’ve gotten in the x-turn-only lane and come to a stop. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/54 "2014-08-30T00:51:59Z")
I can understand being put on hold. I can even grudgingly accept cheesy hold music. What annoys me is _static_ in the hold music. About 1/3 of the time I’m on hold it seems like the hold music is coming from some crappy AM signal or something. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/55 "2014-08-30T02:40:24Z")
I hate drivers who are too timid to go the speed limit just because there are a couple of curves in the road. Look, Grandad, if the traffic engineers say you can go 55 mph, PUSH DOWN ON THE GAS PEDAL! Even if you have nothing else to do, I sure as fuck do. Move your ass! Crowded gas stations: 20 pumping stations and at least 2 to 3 people per pump waiting to get to a pump. See those people? They want gas. This is not the time to leisurely buy a Coke, bag of chips, and a lotto ticket or 10, and just then stroll out to pump your gas. Ever heard of a bank card? Get one and learn how to use it. Buy your freaking snacks after you have cleared the pump. Fuck, why are they not teaching this shit in school? ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/56 "2014-08-30T06:44:08Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Cats listen to you. They just do not give a fuzzy fuck what you are saying. So true. 😃 My peeves: - Once again, people who are unprepared to order at a restaurant. I have one friend who is particularly indecisive. Last weekend we went out to eat, at a sit-down restaurant I’m pretty sure she goes to every month. We let her order last, and she frets, and sighs, like if she chooses poorly, she’s never going to get to eat again. For God’s sake, get it together! - Also, people who cannot plan ahead. (Same friend, incidentally.) There was a cupcake place she specifically wanted to go to. I asked her during dinner if she was sure they were open late. She said she _assumed_ so. Well, we got there a little after 8pm and they closed at 7pm. Derp. - People who have no clue how the self-checkout at the grocery store works, yet insist on using it anyway. They bring too many items, don’t know how to key in their produce, have to write a check, etc. Listen. It’s not faster if you don’t know what you’re doing! - The tons of social-justice related junk e-mails I get. “Sponsor a child!” “Save the wolves!” “Protect the rainforests!” “Sign my petition!” It’s not that I don’t care, but seriously, I can barely take care of myself. If I have the means and desire to support your cause, trust me, I will find you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/57 "2014-08-30T08:04:37Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Copiers. > > There once was a time you put your document on the glass, closed the top, and pushed the button however many times you needed. What was wrong with that? > > Now we’ve got this monstrosity, covered in unmarked buttons that don’t appear to do anything, featuring a touchscreen filled with indecipherable jargon, and a manual as thick as a phone book. I just want to make a fucking copy! Not to mention that modern copiers are so smarty-farty, they figure out for themselves what size paper you are copying, and decide for themselves what bin to pull the right-sized blank paper out of – and get it wrong half the time. This is particularly problematic when copying an odd-size piece (like a check or an envelope) onto a standard size sheet just for my own records. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/58 "2014-08-30T13:10:41Z")
Words. One of them. _ **Belief** _ **Belief–to accept something as true, without evidence.** \*\* Belief–to accept something as true, based on evidence.\*\* The same word means two, diametrically opposite things! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/59 "2014-08-30T14:13:57Z")
You know whta I hate? I hate people whose lifestyle annoys the hell out of me. I’m too busy and too important to have to put up with them. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/60 "2014-08-30T15:11:24Z")
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