# What's your pet peeve(s)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018 "2016-06-22T05:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/21 "2016-06-23T00:12:14Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > Whistling in public. I don’t care how happy you are or how good you are at whistling a tune, it’s annoying beyond belief. You must be in agony walking outside where birds are doing what they do. ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/22 "2016-06-23T00:14:55Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > I hate it when drivers don’t signal in advance. It doesn’t help much when they turn the signal on mid-turn. For instance, a four-lane intersection and one driver signals left but the other does not. The driver with the signal on has to wait to see what the clueless driver without signal is going to do. Meanwhile, the clueless driver is waiting for the signalling driver to make their turn although the signalling driver won’t do so until they’re reasonably sure that the facing driver is indeed clueless and not going to drive straight. I hate those! Most of the time, I high beam or honk at them. Some give me the finger, but sometimes it’s satisfying I get a reaction from them:D ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/23 "2016-06-23T00:17:59Z")
Another one is drivers who drift left and right within their lane because they are texting! I honk at them whenever I see them so they can stop and save lives! ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/24 "2016-06-23T00:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > You must be in agony walking outside where birds are doing what they do. birds don’t whistle??? ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/25 "2016-06-23T00:53:58Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > birds don’t whistle??? And sharks don’t swim. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/26 "2016-06-23T01:02:09Z")
Smokers. Specifically, people who stand right outside a store door and smoke. It’s running a gauntlet to get inside. Smokers in cars. I wouldn’t want to ban smoking from your own car, because it’s your space, but smokers hang their cigarettes out the window, and it blows into my car some 2 or 3 car lengths back. So I get to smoke whether I choose to or not. Crowds. If I’m at a museum, aquarium, etc. I try to stand to the side and read the information, or I’ll read it then stand to the side to give everyone a chance to admire the exhibit. Invariably, people just push me out of the way so their snot-nosed two-year-old can get a better peek. Soundtracks in movie theaters. I’ve stopped going to see movies because there’s whispering, or silence, then a huge explosion on screen, or the music gets loud enough to pop eardrums in the next county. Pfui on Hollywood! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/27 "2016-06-23T01:22:50Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > smokers hang their cigarettes out the window, and it blows into my car some 2 or 3 car lengths back. Wow. Let me add people who wear too much scent. There are a couple of people at work whose presence in a building can be smelled. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/28 "2016-06-23T01:53:06Z")
1. People telling me that I won’t melt in the rain. Yes, I FUCKING KNOW THAT! It still doesn’t mean I want to look like a drowned sewer rat on the day of an important meeting or a dinner date. 2. This one idiot who sings at work. There’s no music in the office, the tv is usually tuned to financial news, yet this one jerk randomly bursts out into a line of some earmworm. 3. Endless fantasy football and sports gambling talk at work. No one cares about your fantasy team and no one cares that you had the over on a team. I’m fine with sports talk, and expect it in an office that is 90% male, but even though I play fantasy sports, that’s about as boring of a discussion as your baby’s bowel movements. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/29 "2016-06-23T02:09:57Z")
Furniture websites that DON’T have prices. “Call us for current prices!” No, I’m here on your site, NOW. Just put the price HERE. ---
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/30 "2016-06-23T05:48:45Z")
> [@Taco\_the\_cat](#): > > Strangers who address me as “sweetheart” or some other term of endearment. > > P. My pet peeve as well. If I’m feeling particularly grumpy, I might respond with, “I am so flattered, but I’m really not your sweetheart. I’m far too old and I’m sure you can do better than me.” Usual reaction is confusion and a red face. Works with both men and women. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/31 "2016-06-23T10:58:07Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I have several friends who hate that. My pet peeve is their constant sturm-und-dramm about it, instead of just shut up and drive to the mall. People who can’t spell sturm und drang 😛 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/32 "2016-06-23T13:02:32Z")
People who talk about summer “starting” on the solstice. The arrangement of stovetop control knobs. Drivers with inconsistent speeds. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/33 "2016-06-23T13:21:59Z")
> [@Dickerman](#): > > People eating crunchy food. My wife and kids say they can hear me crunching too, but for some reason it’s not nearly as annoying when I do it. My wife likes to chomp baby carrots while she is talking on the phone. It drives me crazy, even when I’m not the one she’s talking to. And I know it covers a lot of ground but I’ll just say “idiot drivers”, otherwise I could be here all day. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/34 "2016-06-23T14:05:25Z")
1. People who don’t turn on their headlights when driving in the rain. It makes me furious when it’s pouring and car near me is barely visible because the driver didn’t turn on their headlights and taillights. 2. When people who use “it’s” as a possessive. You’re/youre and loose/lose annoy me, but the it’s/its is the one that drives me nuts. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/35 "2016-06-23T19:01:05Z")
> [@breezman](#): > > 1. People who don’t turn on their headlights when driving in the rain. It makes me furious when it’s pouring and car near me is barely visible because the driver didn’t turn on their headlights and taillights. > > 2. When people who use “it’s” as a possessive. You’re/youre and loose/lose annoy me, but the it’s/its is the one that drives me nuts. (1) Seems like a lot of drivers just haven’t figured it out: _Your_ headlights, more than anything else, are there to make _you_ more visible to the _other_ drivers around you. (Confession: Yes, it took me some years of driving experience before I figured that out. Nobody mentioned it in driving school.) (2) Add to the list: People – journalists in particular – who mix up “stanch” and “staunch”. We must staunch the flow of these abominations! :smack: ETA: The next two [pet peeves](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19423390&postcount=2) I get, I’m going to name **stanch** and **staunch**. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/36 "2016-06-23T19:05:21Z")
People who don’t know the difference between it’s and its, your and you’re, affect and effect, and insist alright is a word. Anti vaxxers are on my last nerve. Such mindless willful ignorance is stunning to behold. I don’t encounter it much in the wild, but I’ve stumbled into it here. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/37 "2016-06-23T19:15:52Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > People who talk about summer “starting” on the solstice. I’m mildly interested in hearing why this is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/38 "2016-06-23T21:36:02Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > People who talk about summer “starting” on the solstice. > > The arrangement of stovetop control knobs. > > Drivers with inconsistent speeds. Wow you must have dreadful days everyday. How often do people talk about the solstice? ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/39 "2016-06-23T21:39:47Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > Smokers. Specifically, people who stand right outside a store door and smoke. It’s running a gauntlet to get inside. > > Smokers in cars. I wouldn’t want to ban smoking from your own car, because it’s your space, but smokers hang their cigarettes out the window, and it blows into my car some 2 or 3 car lengths back. So I get to smoke whether I choose to or not. > > Crowds. If I’m at a museum, aquarium, etc. I try to stand to the side and read the information, or I’ll read it then stand to the side to give everyone a chance to admire the exhibit. Invariably, people just push me out of the way so their snot-nosed two-year-old can get a better peek. > > Soundtracks in movie theaters. I’ve stopped going to see movies because there’s whispering, or silence, then a huge explosion on screen, or the music gets loud enough to pop eardrums in the next county. Pfui on Hollywood! Yup I hate cigarette smoke! I don’t understand how someone would think it has an appealing odor. Plus, their breath is worst (I guess it’s called “third hand smoke”) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018/40 "2016-06-24T01:26:45Z")
> [@ERON](#): > > Yup I hate cigarette smoke! I don’t understand how someone would think it has an appealing odor. Plus, their breath is worst (I guess it’s called “third hand smoke”) I quit smoking long ago, but still love the smell. I hate people who wear so much cologne that my nose bleeds. Different strokes for different folks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018.md?page=3)