# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/61 "2014-08-30T20:22:57Z")
Is there a single smoker out there that doesn’t hold his/her cigarette out the window because stinking up the world is better then stinking up their own car, and of course then dropping the butts instead of disposing of them properly. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/62 "2014-08-30T20:59:48Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Is there a single smoker out there that doesn’t hold his/her cigarette out the window because stinking up the world is better then stinking up their own car, and of course then dropping the butts instead of disposing of them properly. Many newer cars do not have an ashtray at all, so it’s been made difficult to dispose properly. Also, there’s a helluva lot more air outside the car than inside, and carbon monoxide buildup can be a problem for serious nicotine addicts. _Mine_: People who gather at a choke point (like the narrow part of a corridor because there’s one of those newfangled copiers rightfuckingthere) and have a long involved chitchat while not paying an iota of attention to the people who have to dance and weave around or through their conversation. Move it. MOOOOOOOVVVVVE IT! Also, people who leave a huge gap between themselves and the car in front of them, particularly when they’re in the left go-straight lane, blocking everyone who needs to get into the left turn lane, screwing all of them out of a light cycle and creating more backups and gridlock. I don’t mean leaving a safe amount of space between you and the car in front, I mean “I could parallel park an extended cab pickup in that space” people. Oooootch up. OOOOOTCH UUUUPPP! ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/63 "2014-08-30T21:41:40Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Many newer cars do not have an ashtray at all, so it’s been made difficult to dispose properly. Also, there’s a helluva lot more air outside the car than inside, and carbon monoxide buildup can be a problem for serious nicotine addicts. I know they don’t have ashtrays, haven’t seen one in years. I don’t have a garbage can in my car but don’t throw my trash out the window. Sure there is more air outside, doesn’t mean everyone at the stoplight wants to smoke secondhand smoke. If I can smell it I am inhaling it and I’d rather not smoke. If the build up in the car is too much maybe one shouldn’t be smoking. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/64 "2014-08-30T22:06:04Z")
I realize I’m all alone on this one - but what bothers me is foul or disrespectful language. F-bombs, shitty this, God damn that. This thread alone is packed with it. Why, oh why, can’t people express their frustration without “offensive” language? So often I agree with the frustration, but am put off by the way it is expressed. The frequency of updates for adobe - it seems I’m always getting a pop-up saying there’s a new version to download. Hard, tasteless tomatoes. And the fact that cigarette butts aren’t considered litter. At least where I live, the storm drains drain to the local lake. So where do people think the butts go? Whimper. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/65 "2014-08-30T22:15:49Z")
People who take zero responsibility for their own actions. I get people bringing in computers asking me how to avoid this in the future, so I say avoid music and movie torrents, porn, infomercial type stuff. They of course come back a week later with the machine all virused out demanding we fix it as warranty work. We look at it and the 3 torrent programs we took off before are back and the first item on the history is a porn site (or I am tottally misunderstanding 5mancreampie.site.) A subcontactor I use fairly regularly goes on long screeds on fb about how his life sucks, and how broke he is (he made about 2k just from my jobs) and how he cannot believe google, tesla, microsoft, etc are not bidding for the right to hire him. He was over an hour late to two assignments last week one because he “overslept” the job started at 11am. He also owns 2 cars 1 3 years old, the other about 1 year old. He has about $900 a month in car payments. Part of his explanation for his financial woes is I dont pay fast enough. normally its within a week of the job. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/66 "2014-08-30T22:35:00Z")
1. September 11 hysteria. I’ll need to stay off Facebook that day to avoid the endless, “Never ever forget.” and patriotic nonsense posted that day. I especially don’t need it from a local pizza place’s Facebook feed. 2. Similarly, get rid of God Bless America at baseball games. We don’t sing Take. Me out to the Ballgame at church. Also, I’m sick of soldier worship. I’m really sick of the endless daddy surprises kid when he comes home from deployment. 3. I know never read the comments section. But can people ever leave politics out of it? ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/67 "2014-08-30T22:58:16Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > What are your pet peeves and sources of annoyance / irritation? I’m looking for things that crop up time after time that grind you down and give you that ‘This world is just broken’ feeling. Things that you think we really ought to have fixed by now, and that you expect many others also find irritating. > > Leave out the really major, tragic, global stuff (war, famine etc.). I’m looking for more local, personal, relatively trivial angles that nonetheless drive you crazy. > > Some examples from my own collection: > > - going through long, automated telephone trees that ask me for all sorts of info, and then when / if I finally get to talk to a human being, they ask me for the same info all over again > > - taking a day off work to stay home waiting for couriers, delivery companies or tradesmen who either don’t arrive at all, turn up during the 3 minutes you couldn’t answer the door and go away again, or turn up at the very last minute of their specified 12 hour window of opportunity. Seriously, in this day and age, can’t we have more precise schedules or near real-time tracking of where the guy or the van is? > > - airline tickets and boarding passes. Why so complicated, badly designed and awkwardly shaped? They could just give you something credit-card sized showing your name and the flight number / ID plus maybe destination. That’s all anyone really needs. > > - atrociously poor quality of debates and discussions. You’re trying to gently, politely explain that astrology has no basis in science at all. Someone else just smugly asserts, “Science? Pah! I read somewhere that according to science, bees can’t fly! So much for science!”. You’re faced with such a dense thicket of ignorance that it’s hard to know where to start. > > - 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! That just happened to my mom last night. She called road side service about her car and after that long a$$ automated process, the person who was live asked her the same damm questions lol My pet peeve is when I go clothes shopping and after I bring the clothes to the counter to pay for them, the cashier askes me What is your telephone number what is your email address :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/68 "2014-08-31T00:47:14Z")
When I get asked those questions (email, phone number) at checkout, I simply refuse to give that information. My peeve is people who moan about a wisp of cigarette smoke drifting out a car window. You’re getting more pollution from the car exhaust. I’d agree on littering; I never drop butts out the window. It is relatively easy to find an ashtray that will fit in some portion of your car’s interior. But spare me the whining about a little smoke and ash. Jeez Louise. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/69 "2014-08-31T00:55:48Z")
My itchy back. I can’t _ever_ reach the damn itches and they drive me absolutely insane. I have a big jagged scar on my back and it frequently itches along the edges of the scar tissue. That I cant reach without special tools. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/70 "2014-08-31T01:05:25Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > People who take zero responsibility for their own actions. I get people bringing in computers asking me how to avoid this in the future, so I say avoid music and movie torrents, porn, infomercial type stuff. They of course come back a week later with the machine all virused out demanding we fix it as warranty work. We look at it and the 3 torrent programs we took off before are back and the first item on the history is a porn site (or I am tottally misunderstanding 5mancreampie.site.) [you’re three times more likely to get a virus on a religious site than on a porn site](http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/61998/how-can-i-watch-porn-safely-and-not-get-a-virus-and-not-infect-corporate-dat). ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/71 "2014-08-31T01:47:51Z")
Things that reasonably can be done online that AREN’T able to be done online. Restaurants that don’t even have a free facebook page with just pictures of their menu as jpgs, for example. I don’t need a custom app or a fancy website. I just want to know if you have $4 grilled cheese sandwiches or $14 ones. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/72 "2014-08-31T02:50:44Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > And turning on your turn signal just 5 feet before your turn DOES. NOT. COUNT. When you’ve already started making the turn doesn’t count either. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/73 "2014-08-31T03:14:49Z")
People at the Supermarket that park their shopping carts right in the middle of the aisle so you cannot go by them. Or just stand in the middle of aisle comparing brands/prices. Move out of the way! Trains! We got so many trains in my hometown. I live on side of the tracks and most of the businesses are on the other side. Probably confirmation bias, but every time I am in a semi hurry to get across town, there is the stupid train. ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/74 "2014-08-31T03:17:10Z")
people not having their money ready when they get to the cashier. They start digging for the wallet when they had plenty of time to do that ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/75 "2014-08-31T03:19:26Z")
Passengers in my car who take it upon themselves to remind me of upcoming stop signs, alert me to oncoming traffic, ask me why I’m not passing another vehicle or driving .5 mph under the speed limit, or ask me why I’m taking street A instead of street B. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/76 "2014-08-31T12:48:53Z")
Pointing at a link with a mouse and a split second before clicking aforesaid link the page readjusts causing the link to move up or down forcing mouse pointer repositioning. Bonus rant: barreling down the road with green lights ahead and som unthinking cad appears on a side street causing my green light to turn red. Grrrr ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/77 "2014-08-31T13:11:00Z")
It peeves me that every storm in the country is reported as “massive”. Also, that year after year reporters feel the need to stand outside in a hurricane, rather than just pointing the camera from safely inside the building. Thanks, [Dan Rather](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yuo527vOzU) (:55). ---
**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 31, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/78 "2014-08-31T14:19:15Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > It peeves me that every storm in the country is reported as “massive”. > > Also, that year after year reporters feel the need to stand outside in a hurricane, rather than just pointing the camera from safely inside the building. Thanks, [Dan Rather](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yuo527vOzU) (:55). They also have to stand “in” whatever they’re reporting on, be it flooding, drought, mud or cow shit. This has become standard reporter procedure (SRP). It’s become a running joke in our house. “I’m standing in potato salad; back to you.” ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/79 "2014-08-31T14:30:33Z")
I actually hate it when actual people actually use the word actual in front of every actual noun in all actual sentences they actually speak. Also, in no dictionary ever has there been an i after the v in mischievous, so quit saying one there!! ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/80 "2014-08-31T14:36:13Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > When I get asked those questions (email, phone number) at checkout, I simply refuse to give that information. > > My peeve is people who moan about a wisp of cigarette smoke drifting out a car window. You’re getting more pollution from the car exhaust. I’d agree on littering; I never drop butts out the window. It is relatively easy to find an ashtray that will fit in some portion of your car’s interior. But spare me the whining about a little smoke and ash. Jeez Louise. sure I get more from the car exhaust but why add to it? If I make the choice to be around smoke I’d never say a thing but on the street I shouldn’t have to inhale any smoke I don’t want to. Cigarette smokes stinks and as a throat cancer survivor I’d rather no inhale any that I don’t have too. Keeping your butts in your own car places you in a very small minority of smokers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850.md?page=5)