# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/101 "2014-09-01T21:43:19Z")
My street narrows down right in front of my house, yet remains just barely a two way street. There’s also a little bit of a hill so instead of slowing down in the face of potential oncoming traffic from the other side, about 10% of the drivers HONK THEIR HORN…in front of my house. ALL THE TIME! _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/102 "2014-09-01T21:45:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Postings I get on facebook telling me I’ve been doing something “wrong”. No, the way you’re pushing is just different. > > Postings on facebook telling me that if I watch this video, it’s going to amaze me, or change my life. No, it might be cute, or interesting, but stop with the hype. What about the Philosophical postings on Facebook that are there to change your life ---
**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:** [September 1, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/103 "2014-09-01T21:47:59Z")
> [@kbear](#): > > My street narrows down right in front of my house, yet remains just barely a two way street. There’s also a little bit of a hill so instead of slowing down in the face of potential oncoming traffic from the other side, about 10% of the drivers HONK THEIR HORN…in front of my house. ALL THE TIME! _sigh_ Why don’t you put up a sign that says “Don’t honk - you’ll wake up the cops manning the speed trap”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/104 "2014-09-02T00:59:53Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > The vast majority of people around here return shopping carts, so it bugs me when I see one that’s not returned. I wonder what kind of completely thoughtless, selfish, asshole decided it was perfectly fine to just leave the cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of taking one fucking minute to return it to the store or the cart holding area. > > I will return that cart and shake my head at the assholishness of the dickweed who left it there in the first place. What the fuck were you thinking? Oh boy. Can I relate to that one. About 3 miles from me is a Walmart. Almost no one who shops at that Walmart ever puts their cart in the return rack. I have seen carts left sitting in the parking lot by people **who parked right next to the rack!** This utter laziness I cannot understand. The clientele at this Walmart is a mix of city and suburb. About 10 miles in the opposite direction is another Walmart, where the clientele tends to be country/suburban. I have never seen a stray cart in that parking lot. I can’t stand Walmart generally, but I’m more likely to shop at the one where my car won’t get hit by a runaway shopping cart. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/105 "2014-09-02T04:22:01Z")
Whenever I see really cool sneakers on Amazon, they’re invariably out-of-stock for average sizes or for the best colors, or the vendor charges $150 plus $15 shipping. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/106 "2014-09-02T05:32:46Z")
> [@Whatever4](#): > > 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. Quick answer: “Because _I’m_ driving.” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/107 "2014-09-02T05:42:29Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > 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. I haven’t seen one in many years, but there used to be a kind of beanbag ashtray you could put on top of the dashboard. If they still make them…problem solved. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/108 "2014-09-02T13:07:02Z")
For those irritated at the shopping cart miscreants, things weren’t always like that. There was a time, back in the heyday of Zayre, K-Mart, and Grant’s, when there were no cart corrals. People left the carts where they were, and somebody from the store came out frequently to retrieve them- not just twice every twelve hours. No carts were left in grocery store lots, because the bag boy who pushed the cart to the car also loaded the groceries into the car and took the cart back into the store. ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/109 "2014-09-02T14:17:42Z")
1. I have an aunt who, when writing on Facebook, will not use punctuation of any kind. And all of her posts and comments are long. She even capitalizes words at random to make things extra confusing. All of her posts are unreadable. 2. I have a thing about putting trash in the sink. If it can’t go down the drain or the garbage disposal, I don’t want it in the sink. Don’t leave the meat packaging in there. Don’t leave the empty cans in there. Don’t leave candy wrappers in there. It gets wet and disgusting and I have to clean it up. Just don’t! 3. Calling regular iced tea “unsweet tea.” I just hate it for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/110 "2014-09-02T16:04:35Z")
Ones off the top of my head: No you may not ax me a question. It’s ask. And it’s not “what she do” or “it’s how she be”. I don’t care where you’re from, or how you’re raised, proper English is proper English and I expect you to speak it. If a sample is a free sample you ALWAYS ask for one. And you take only one, in the proper amount. If you want a second one you may also ASK and just not take it. And this is ESPECIALLY true for your kids, they do not get free passes because they’re kids. Please’s and Thank You’s are also helpful, but not mandatory. Opinions are just that, opinions. Yours isn’t right no matter how much you think it is, mine isn’t wrong no matter how much you think it is, so forcing your thoughts into a conversation isn’t needed. Politics isn’t everything, religion (including anti) isn’t everything, and not everyone cares about either. Let me live my life without you pretending you’re better than me. Lipstick. Girls, you don’t need it…you’re pretty all on your own. Dying your eyebrow hair to match your hair color looks just weird. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/111 "2014-09-02T16:23:23Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > He’s a toddler, lady! Just **tell him what to do**! :dubious: You haven’t dealt with a toddler lately have you? You have to pretty much convince a toddler that everything they do is their own idea. Telling a toddler what to do is a sure-fire to get nothing but “NO!” for the next five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/112 "2014-09-02T18:21:02Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > If a sample is a free sample you ALWAYS ask for one. And you take only one, in the proper amount. If you want a second one you may also ASK and just not take it. And this is ESPECIALLY true for your kids, they do not get free passes because they’re kids. Please’s and Thank You’s are also helpful, but not mandatory. If it’s a free sample, and it’s clearly indicated as such by a sign or a person in the store offering it to you, then I don’t see the need to ask. Unless it is a child asking its parent for permission to take one. It’s being offered to you, so just take it. The offering of it gives you permission. I agree with you on asking if you may take a second one, though. Taking more than one is just being greedy. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/113 "2014-09-02T18:59:35Z")
I know people get hungry but do they have to bring hot food into waiting rooms? I was waiting to be called back to be prepped for surgery. This means I had nothing to eat or drink since midnight, along with every other patient in the waiting room. Here come a group of visitors with bags of hamburgers and fries. Do they really have to eat it in front of us? I doubt I was the only one debating whether or not I could take them down and steal their food. Then when I was in the ER waiting room people came in with bags and containers of - I have no idea what. The best way to describe the smell was dirty socks boiled in vinegar with a generous dash of tabasco sauce. I thought I was going to hurl. I can’t imagine what it was doing to the people in there already who were already sick to their stomachs. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/114 "2014-09-02T19:05:25Z")
To add to that: People for whom an ER visit is a family event. I swear to you, I’ve seen mom, dad, many kids, grandparents, uncles, aunts…just waiting. No one is that sick, they’re all there for a kid’s broken arm or something. (Maybe I’m weird, but if I’m in pain, I want to be left alone. Except when someone gets me pills. Then I want THAT person around.) My stepmother’s total inability to use the Message option on Facebook. She leaves random drunken weird posts on my wall where all 200 friends can read them. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/115 "2014-09-02T20:17:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > If it’s a free sample, and it’s clearly indicated as such by a sign or a person in the store offering it to you, then I don’t see the need to ask. Unless it is a child asking its parent for permission to take one. It’s being offered to you, so just take it. The offering of it gives you permission. > > I agree with you on asking if you may take a second one, though. Taking more than one is just being greedy. Depends on how the sample is given I guess. My experience with it is with the weekend Teavana job where I’m standing in front of the sample cart and people just walk up, grab a sample cup, fill it so high is spills over the brim, drink it, and walk away without acknowledging me even though I have been there the whole time. Also no, you do not get to choose how much you get and fill it up all the way. and the worst of all are the people who take the cup that I’ve filled halfway for them and then proceed to FILL IT THE REST OF THE WAY WHILE I’M STARING AT THEM. So rude ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/116 "2014-09-02T20:34:39Z")
Here’s one from just today: Two women trying to decide which bag of corn chips to buy. One of them rejects one bag for some reason and leans down to put it back on the bottom shelf, where it came from. It won’t slide in easily, so she kicks it and shoves it in with her foot. Seriously? I wish I’d said something. Then I round the corner where they have the bulk coffee and catch someone filling up a store-brand bag with coffee that’s $2.00 more a pound. She gave me a guilty glance, but it didn’t stop her. It’s not as bad as the guy I saw many years ago eating cherries and spitting the pits back into the fruit bin, but people’s behaviors never cease to astound me. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/117 "2014-09-02T21:37:08Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Depends on how the sample is given I guess. > > My experience with it is with the weekend Teavana job where I’m standing in front of the sample cart and people just walk up, grab a sample cup, fill it so high is spills over the brim, drink it, and walk away without acknowledging me even though I have been there the whole time. > > Also no, you do not get to choose how much you get and fill it up all the way. and the worst of all are the people who take the cup that I’ve filled halfway for them and then proceed to FILL IT THE REST OF THE WAY WHILE I’M STARING AT THEM. So rude OK, yeah. I agree with you, then. That’s being a pig. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/118 "2014-09-02T21:43:06Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Ones off the top of my head: > > No you may not ax me a question. It’s ask. . . Preach it, brother. My New Guy does this, and I’m trying to (gently, lovingly) train him out of it before I get exasperated and snap at him. Now he’ll usually catch and correct himself, while giving me A Look. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/119 "2014-09-02T21:49:28Z")
In what’s supposed to be the most technologically advanced nation in the world, my DSL internet shits the bed whenever there are thunderstorms within 50 miles! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850/120 "2014-09-02T22:13:11Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > To add to that: > > People for whom an ER visit is a family event. I swear to you, I’ve seen mom, dad, many kids, grandparents, uncles, aunts…just waiting. No one is that sick, they’re all there for a kid’s broken arm or something. (Maybe I’m weird, but if I’m in pain, I want to be left alone. Except when someone gets me pills. Then I want THAT person around.) > > . I was in a hospital in the Middle East sharing a room with an Arab woman. She was told after surgery not to eat or drink heavily. About 9pm in came her mother, her mother in law, her sisters, her daughter, assorted female cousins. Out comes the tea, the coffee, cookies, dates, almonds, pastries. She sitting on the bed eating drinking etc. the relatives all leave around 11( after being told for an hour to leave) the rest of the night she is throwing up and moaning. What fun I had because they didn’t give out good drugs there for me;) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-broken-world-vent-about-your-pet-peeves-and-irritations/696850.md?page=7)