# Yet Another Pet Peeves thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996 "2005-04-25T08:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/41 "2005-05-25T16:52:20Z")
I think **inkleberry** just wanted to use the word _behooves_. And quite right too. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > (2) I hate having a losing session at poker. I particularly hate when someone caps pre-flop with 25 offsuit against my AQ suited and someone else’s pocket kings, then rivers their inside straight. Meh, it happens. As the always say, play well and you’ll be up in the long time. Play badly and … well, you’ll be me, probably. > [@](#): > > (4) I hate it when I like something which is popular, and then a sequel or follow up or similar item is produced, and apparently the things that I liked about it were not what everyone else liked about it, as they are absent (and not just because the people making it tried and failed, but because they clearly consciously chose not to go in that direction). In particular, every time there’s a video game that I like, its sequel goes out of the way to emphasize that it’s darker and grittier and more 3D and has more combat and less puzzle solving. Which is 100% not what I want or why I liked it in the first place. I didn’t even buy the second Prince of Persia game 'cos I knew I’d feel that way. That is what you’re talking about right ? > [@](#): > > (6) I hate it when I’m using **Windows** and the focus switches without my consciously switching it… ie, you launch an application then go start typing something, and then the application pops up and suddenly you’re typing into it accidentally Find and install power toys and particularly TweakUI – it’s on the Microsoft site nowadays. Find the box that says “Stop applications stealing focus”. Check that box. Have one less pet peeve to worry about. Ditto to people with kids in non-kid friendly situations. “Eh, hullo, XXX2 probably isn’t the place for your five year old”. SD ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/42 "2005-05-25T18:05:17Z")
> [@SpaceDog](#): > > I didn’t even buy the second Prince of Persia game 'cos I knew I’d feel that way. That is what you’re talking about right ? Yup. Although, once I got past the first level (which sucked), I actually enjoyed it more than I expected to. Btw, if you liked PoP, go play ICO. Now. Thank me later. > [@](#): > > Find and install power toys and particularly TweakUI – it’s on the Microsoft site nowadays. Find the box that says “Stop applications stealing focus”. Check that box. Have one less pet peeve to worry about. Oooh, saucy, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/43 "2005-05-25T18:48:06Z")
I now despise people who leave stuff on bathroom walls. It used to be, it was just the boogers. Gross, but I could cope with seeing a booger or two. Today it was [TMI WARNING] blood. Like someone had wiped a tampon on the wall. [/TMI WARNING] I want to hang the gross bathroom users by their toes. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/44 "2005-05-25T18:49:11Z")
When the people who make sandwiches don’t crack the spine of large lettuce leaves. Then the whole thing wobbly and hard to keep together. Hotel rooms with the phones on the desk, instead of by the bed. This is something I just saw for the first time. Our hotel in both Vancouver and Seattle had this annoying feature. Is this becoming commonplace? At least there should still be an extension by the bed. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/45 "2005-05-25T18:50:56Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > Hotel rooms with the phones on the desk, instead of by the bed. This is something I just saw for the first time. Our hotel in both Vancouver and Seattle had this annoying feature. Is this becoming commonplace? Yes. If you look closely at those phones, you’ll likely find a dataport connection for folks to plug in their laptops. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/46 "2005-05-26T03:25:19Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I just figured it meant I wasn’t in the clique. ??? 😕 ??? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/47 "2005-05-26T03:42:20Z")
I hate those hamburgers that have so much “stuff” in them that it all falls out when you try to pick them up and actually eat. Mustard, catsup, secret sauce, ancient wilted lettuce, all just lubricants so the whole thing self destructs on its way to your mouth. :mad: I also get torqued when some dopers ignore the main point you are trying to make, and beat you to death over some nit, or some semantic quibble, trying to make “clever points” instead. It’s like they are deliberately trying to turn the discusion or argument into a hijacked train wreck. But that’s still less infuriating than those evil lubricated burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/48 "2005-05-26T13:34:38Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > [TMI WARNING] OOOOOH! That happened at my old job. Bitch actually _wrote_ in blood. It was the scariest thing ever. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/49 "2005-05-26T14:53:12Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > ??? 😕 ??? A joke, of sorts. See post #18. ---
**Author:** ![Maendosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Maendosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maendosa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/50 "2005-05-26T15:40:46Z")
In the small accounting department at my firm, there are 6 people who work in a small room. I suspect that most of us have allergies, but **four** of us bring tissues in, or take medication to deal with the runny nose and eyes. However, **two** of you choose to deal with it by making that horrifically hideous **SNAAAAARKSNUFFHNUUURUUKK** noise and suck all your snot back into your sinuses. Loudly. **STOP DOING THAT** , you give me the skeevies every time I hear it. Didn’t your mothers teach you that that noise is not done, and especially not in public?!? **GET A FUCKING KLEENEX!!** One of them is my boss :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/51 "2005-05-26T16:47:46Z")
> [@Maendosa](#): > > \However, **two** of you choose to deal with it by making that horrifically hideous **SNAAAAARKSNUFFHNUUURUUKK** noise and suck all your snot back into your sinuses. Loudly. \ I call that “snorkeling”, cause it makes a snork-ling sound. Anyway. I thought of another peeve - people who say they will do something (practically ripping it out of your hands, figuratively), and then don’t do it, and get mad when you step on their toes and do it yourself, cause it was easy and quick and you didn’t understand why they didn’t just DO IT ALREADY! IT’S BEEN A MONTH! Okay, that might be a whole 'nother thread at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/52 "2005-05-26T19:31:54Z")
Me: Yes it costs 50 cents to reserve a book at the library… Do not tell me how often you come to the library and that you’ve never heard of this before. I’m at the front desk seven hours a day every day, I’ve never seen you before. Do not get all self-righteous when you ask how long we’ve been doing this. The answer will be four years next month. While we’re at it… Do not return a stack of books and movies three weeks late and tell me you don’t think you should pay the fine because “They’re not lost anymore, that makes us square right?” Do not get under the computer desks and fiddle with the wires because you thought it was running slow. Do not get all huffy when I tell you that you can’t check out books when you don’t have your library card or any identification at all. But you drove here, so I hope you get pulled over. Have a nice day. Do not bring items you want to return to the check out counter. Do not bring items you want to check out to the return counter. If I’m standing at the first checkout computer don’t stand at the second checkout computer and sigh until I walk over to you. Then you definitely better not say “You looked busy, I didn’t want to disturb you.” Dear Abby hit this one a few weeks ago, but most of all, DO NOT THROW YOUR FUCKING LIBRARY CARD ON THE COUNTER WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/53 "2005-05-26T19:47:25Z")
Dayum. Pet peeves: toilet paper rolls-exchange them, please. dishes in sink, with dishwasher empty and practically begging for a reason to exist. tailgaters and drivers who either don’t signal or leave their signal on forever. Neo-cons who think they are intellectually superior to all us hoi-polloi and patronize the hell out of anyone more progressive. Patients who listen, nod and agree with my teaching and then do none of it. Kids who beg for cell phones, but then never turn the damned things on. People who make smacking noises when they eat. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/54 "2005-05-26T20:16:19Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > If I’m standing at the first checkout computer don’t stand at the second checkout computer and sigh until I walk over to you. Then you definitely better not say “You looked busy, I didn’t want to disturb you.” ARGH! It just happened again. I’m standing under the checkout sign at the first computer. Doofus goes to the second computer. Doofus’ friend tells him to walk over to where I’m standing. Doofus replies: “But they don’t check things out over there.” Remember, I’m standing DIRECTLY UNDER the checkout sign. ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/55 "2005-05-26T20:18:53Z")
People who start rushing onto the elevator without giving those on it a chance to exit. The lady who, after setting down her coffee in a corner near the door, and starting to fiddle with straightening out her pants or something (couldn’t see her she was not quite in view of the elevator doors), started imperiously demanding that I “hold it, Hold the elevator please”!! Um, NO. It’s 3 minutes til 8am. I am to be at my desk at 8 exactly. I am going to the top floor. You are not coming toward the elevator, and from the looks of things, you won’t be ready to until your coffee/pants/office items fiddlefarting around is over and done with. If I held the elevator while you did all of this fiddling around, I would NOT be able to be at my desk at 8am. Now, I am more than willing to hold the elevator for anyone actively approaching it, but your arrogant stance of “hold it while I fiddle around and until I’m darned good and ready”, coupled with your imperious tone of voice is what got you nuthin’ on this one. Get some manners Miss Priss. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/56 "2005-05-26T20:26:54Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > ARGH! > > It just happened again. I’m standing under the checkout sign at the first computer. Doofus goes to the second computer. Doofus’ friend tells him to walk over to where I’m standing. Doofus replies: > > “But they don’t check things out over there.” > > Remember, I’m standing DIRECTLY UNDER the checkout sign. > > ::sigh:: You’re posting from your JOB? Gaaasp!!! 😃 Is there something weird about the first checkout computer that would make people think that? Is the sign blocked by something overhead from certain angles? Something? Anything? Could there be some other sort of misleading sign at the first computer? Sorry, don’t mean to be Devil’s advocate here, I just always have a hard time believing there are people THAT darn dumb. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/57 "2005-05-26T20:33:48Z")
People who don’t say thank you. Yes, Guy Who I Held the Elevator For, I’m looking at you. I didn’t HAVE to hold it - I didn’t even know you were there until you were jogging towards the elevator door when it was almost closed. There are four other elevators, and I would not have felt bad about leaving you there. All holding the door got me was a ride down smelling your foul cologne. I do beleive you actually glared at me when you got on. Oh well, I guess that’s just what I get for being nice…? People who don’t let passengers get off the T before they get on. Their need to get on the train first only causes everyone else to wait, because of the traffic jam in the door. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/58 "2005-05-26T20:47:08Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Is there something weird about the first checkout computer that would make people think that? Is the sign blocked by something overhead from certain angles? Something? Anything? > > Could there be some other sort of misleading sign at the first computer? Sorry, don’t mean to be Devil’s advocate here, I just always have a hard time believing there are people THAT darn dumb. I think it’s that during my down time I’m often surfing or posting to the board so that I look busy. Which makes some sense, but then falls apart by the sheer fact that I’m standing directly under the checkout sign. So what if I’m typing something? I’m still at a checkout station. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/59 "2005-05-26T23:14:19Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > OOOOOH! That happened at my old job. Bitch actually _wrote_ in blood. It was the scariest thing ever. :eek: I have to ask- _what_ did she write? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996/60 "2005-05-27T00:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > **catsix** : I want to hang the gross bathroom users by their toes. People who leave gross bathroom users hanging by their toes in the bathroom. (It’s okay if the gross users have stopped swinging, but it’s the swaying that makes me dizzy.) Warnings from Mods that are snarkier than the supposed snarkiness that drew the warning. Assertiveness good. Aggression unnecessary. People who obviously exaggerate the truth to make a point. People who think that the bigotry of the past was unthinkable but cannot see their own bigotry in the present. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pet-peeves-thread/300996.md?page=4)