Can we discuss pet peeves here? (3 Viewers)

[Mrs. Rannous]

Is it socially acceptable to honk your horn 4-8 times every time you leave your driveway?

Eleven times just now! Little kid is asking everybody to do this.

Every day. Every time somebody leaves.

This is madness.

At some point when the kid is asking for 18,19,20 somebody will be like, look kid, this is out of hand. Right? Please???

What is this?

The description makes it sound like a request from some child. If so, make it stop.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Paper cuts. Just got one for the first time in years. Those suckers hurt.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Paper cuts. Just got one for the first time in years. Those suckers hurt.

Xmas morning the first package i opened for my daughter, boom paper cut. I was like wtf? Dont remember the last time i got one of these.

Paper cuts dont go well with my obsession for sanitizer.

 

[parasaurolophus]

The description makes it sound like a request from some child. If so, make it stop

Yep.

"Mommy, honk 11 times"

"Uncle Carl, honk 6 times!"

"Gammy honk 4 times!"

Omg, clap, clap, clap, yay, so fun.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

The description makes it sound like a request from some child. If so, make it stop

Yep.

"Mommy, honk 11 times"

"Uncle Carl, honk 6 times!"

"Gammy honk 4 times!"

Omg, clap, clap, clap, yay, so fun.

That would earn them a mom lecture from me. Learn manners and consideration, peckerwoods.

 

[3C's]

Is it socially acceptable to honk your horn 4-8 times every time you leave your driveway?

Eleven times just now! Little kid is asking everybody to do this.

Every day. Every time somebody leaves.

This is madness.

At some point when the kid is asking for 18,19,20 somebody will be like, look kid, this is out of hand. Right? Please???

Not 11 times and not every day but the good ole boy that lives down the hill has a tractor trailer like air horn on his giant truck and someone likes to let that thing rip multiple times a week. Probably can be heard in the next county over. But the next county over is only 1/2 mile away so there is that.

Also, when I leave my daughter's house my 3yo grandson does the "honk your horn" thing and I oblige but it's only 2 quick toots and my horn is that wimpy roadrunner sounding Honda horn. I'll never not do it if he asks. So if a kid is asking, yes it's "socially acceptable".

 

[brun]

The beeping when you leave seems really weird to me. Didn't you just say goodbye?

 

[DA RAIDERS]

The description makes it sound like a request from some child. If so, make it stop

Yep.

"Mommy, honk 11 times"

"Uncle Carl, honk 6 times!"

"Gammy honk 4 times!"

Omg, clap, clap, clap, yay, so fun.

That would earn them a mom lecture from me. Learn manners and consideration, peckerwoods.

Yep. There’s no way I’m obliging that nonsense

 

[El Floppo]

The description makes it sound like a request from some child. If so, make it stop

Yep.

"Mommy, honk 11 times"

"Uncle Carl, honk 6 times!"

"Gammy honk 4 times!"

Omg, clap, clap, clap, yay, so fun.

That would earn them a mom lecture from me. Learn manners and consideration, peckerwoods.

Yep. There’s no way I’m obliging that nonsense

I'm just going to lay on the horn until my kids starts crying.

 

[offdee]

The College Football Playoff logo. The "laces" area of the football was originally designed with 4 lines to represent the old format of 4 playoff teams. Now with a 12 team playoff they just kept using it with 4 lines. They could've easily redesigned that area with 12 dashes and it would've looked actually like a real football laces look. The vertical lace is negative space and then 6 smaller dashes on each side. Annoys me every time I see it.

 

[offdee]

Why are college football players dunking on basketball hoops as a celebration? Dumb.

 

[mr. furley]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

 

[belljr]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

Lol my wife gets "upset" if I don't empty the can in the kitchen before taking the big bin out.

I just tell her recycling will go out next week

 

[mr. furley]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

Lol my wife gets "upset" if I don't empty the can in the kitchen before taking the big bin out.

I just tell her recycling will go out next week

same

taking that trash out is a superpower only i possess. all others who cross the threshold of this house are unable to remove bags from trash cans like swords from a stone.

 

[bigbottom]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned. And I really hardly have pet peeves anymore as I have really tried to be more zen. But this one grinds my gears because I KEEP FALLING FOR IT. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

I’m ordering something online at a new website. The site says to enter my email address for “announcements and special offers” to get 15% off my order. It’s worth it for 15% off so I enter my email address. And it then immediately pulls up a second message telling me to now enter my cell number to receive texts to qualify for the 15% off. WHICH I WILL NOT DO. And I always enter my actual personal email address since I’m actually planning on ordering something.

It keeps happening, I keep thinking “this time they won’t pull that crappy ‘now enter your cell number for texts’ thing” AND THEN THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO.

I’m such a putz.

 

[jhib]

Loud gas station pump video ads. Especially when the stupid pump doesn't have a hold open clip so I have to stand there squeezing the pump right in front of the blaring ads instead of at least being able to take a few steps away. No, I had to listen to Maria Menounos lecture me to only eat in-season fruits and vegetables while pumping my gas in the cold of January in Upstate NY. And of course, the windshield wash buckets were all empty.
This while coming home from a weekend in NJ... I know people make fun of NJ gas stations, but sitting in my warm, quiet car while someone else pumped my gas (for $.40 cheaper) was much preferable to this.

 

[jhib]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned. And I really hardly have pet peeves anymore as I have really tried to be more zen. But this one grinds my gears because I KEEP FALLING FOR IT. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

I’m ordering something online at a new website. The site says to enter my email address for “announcements and special offers” to get 15% off my order. It’s worth it for 15% off so I enter my email address. And it then immediately pulls up a second message telling me to now enter my cell number to receive texts to qualify for the 15% off. WHICH I WILL NOT DO. And I always enter my actual personal email address since I’m actually planning on ordering something.

It keeps happening, I keep thinking “this time they won’t pull that crappy ‘now enter your cell number for texts’ thing” AND THEN THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO.

I’m such a putz.

Maybe next time, though?

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

not really sure if this counts or if people will agree but I hate the argument that a 1 1/2 hour-2 hour movie doesn't have as much character development as tv show or book.

 

[nirad3]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

It's like we're living parallel lives. Our trash day is Monday, too. I take the cans out on Sunday night (got an alert on my phone to do it right around halftime of the SNF game). I also have an alert to have my son do a "trash run" to empty all of the little wastebaskets.

But yeah, if by some chance there is more trash that accumulates anywhere, it invariably gets put in a small bag (think Wal-Mart or Target size) and gets left outside the kitchen door on the BBQ (our trash cans are stored on the other side of a gate on the side of the house normally). Can't expect anyone to actually walk the additional 20' to throw the bag in the bin.

 

[Instinctive]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

It's like we're living parallel lives. Our trash day is Monday, too. I take the cans out on Sunday night (got an alert on my phone to do it right around halftime of the SNF game). I also have an alert to have my son do a "trash run" to empty all of the little wastebaskets.

But yeah, if by some chance there is more trash that accumulates anywhere, it invariably gets put in a small bag (think Wal-Mart or Target size) and gets left outside the kitchen door on the BBQ (our trash cans are stored on the other side of a gate on the side of the house normally). Can't expect anyone to actually walk the additional 20' to throw the bag in the bin.

I long ago accepted that it would be my job to take it out no matter whose job it actually is.

So when we divvy everything up I just make sure it's on the list as visibly another thing I handle.

 

[Gally]

Loud gas station pump video ads.

Its' worse when it starts over every few seconds because you punch in your zip code or hit no receipt or start pumping, etc, etc. Seems to always be on some endless loop that starts over every 10 seconds. Terrible invention

 

[nirad3]

trash and recycling bins get picked up on Monday. for the last 15 years. always Monday.

the way my wife and (now kids) will wait until i put the bins out on the curb, then moan & groan about how they now have to walk out of the house, to the street, to throw something in the recycling or trash that has been in their room, on a table, wherever... for days sometimes.... is one of those small things that slowly drives a person insane, which other people think is petty & stupid to be cranky about.... until it happens to them. every week. for 15 years.


i could put them out at 7 AM on Sunday morning and the first thing they'd say on waking up is "why do i have to walk to the curb to throw out my trash? why didn't you just leave the bins in the garage?" or, those bins could go out as the collection truck is rounding the corner to our street on Monday morning and they'd moan that i put the bins out too soon and now they have to do.. so.. much... walking to throw something out.

i'm about to turn the trash inside out in the living room and make them walk each piece of trash to the street individually.

It's like we're living parallel lives. Our trash day is Monday, too. I take the cans out on Sunday night (got an alert on my phone to do it right around halftime of the SNF game). I also have an alert to have my son do a "trash run" to empty all of the little wastebaskets.

But yeah, if by some chance there is more trash that accumulates anywhere, it invariably gets put in a small bag (think Wal-Mart or Target size) and gets left outside the kitchen door on the BBQ (our trash cans are stored on the other side of a gate on the side of the house normally). Can't expect anyone to actually walk the additional 20' to throw the bag in the bin.

I long ago accepted that it would be my job to take it out no matter whose job it actually is.

So when we divvy everything up I just make sure it's on the list as visibly another thing I handle.

Yeah, I've basically relegated myself to all things trash/recycling bins. Take 'em out, take 'em back in... oh and we have a "staging" recycling bin outside the kitchen door that I have to schlep over to the side of the house and empty into the bin that goes to the street.

I at least engage my son to empty the in-house baskets so he's accustomed to doing it at some point.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

not really sure if this counts or if people will agree but I hate the argument that a 1 1/2 hour-2 hour movie doesn't have as much character development as tv show or book.

Depends on the writing. I've seen Dead Poets Society.

 

[the moops]

I’m such a putz.

Yet we still love you

 

[CGRdrJoe]

use by dates that are stamped on food why the **** do they stamp it over words so that everything jumbles together and make it unreadable? I'll tell you why, just to **** with me and make me try and remember when I bought the yogurt that's been sitting in my fridge for what my be a day or a month. Stamp that **** where it can be read...

 

[belljr]

Read the stamp? Just eat it until it tastes terrible!!!!$.

 

[FarFromHome]

When it's winter time and someone in your family let's the dogs outside and stands there with the door completely open. You can feel winter entering your home. Or when they want them to come back inside they stand there with door completely open waiting for them to all return. Smh

You crack the door a foot. Open it quickly and if they don't go outside you shut the door until they are ready. To let them inside your wait till they are ready. Crack the door. If they dont immediately come inside you shut the door. They aren't ready.

No one in my family gets this process. Gonna start taking souls in this house..

 

[Dezbelief]

I’m such a putz.

Yet we still love you

I like big bottoms, I cannot lie.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Can we discontinue the use of "unsettling", "disturbing", and mostly "chilling" to describe anything we disagree with?

 

[ChiefD]

When it's winter time and someone in your family let's the dogs outside and stands there with the door completely open. You can feel winter entering your home. Or when they want them to come back inside they stand there with door completely open waiting for them to all return. Smh

You crack the door a foot. Open it quickly and if they don't go outside you shut the door until they are ready. To let them inside your wait till they are ready. Crack the door. If they dont immediately come inside you shut the door. They aren't ready.

No one in my family gets this process. Gonna start taking souls in this house..

I would like this 1000 times if I could.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Turn off your headlights when sitting in the parking lot and waiting. Thanks.

 

[wlwiles]

Turn off your headlights when sitting in the parking lot and waiting. Thanks.

Reminds me of one when I worked in fast food in high school. If it's raining, please turn your wipers off when you pull up to a drive-thru window.

 

[nirad3]

Repeating oneself in this thread might be someone else's pet peeve, but dagnabbit I'm gonna say it again... I cannot STAND when people watch videos with the sound up in public places. I'm trying to enjoy my fast food meal while reading some FBG articles and behind me is some dude watching a video with the sound up. Effing STOP.

And I'm not trying to get cute here but at least where I am, 8 out of 10 times this happens it's videos in Spanish.

 

[jamny]

It would be great if people learned to keep their cart on the same side of the aisle as they are.

And if they avoided leaving it in the middle of the aisle blocking everyone...

How come we all know to drive on the right side of the road but when in public spaces so many people walk on the left and into "oncoming traffic" ?

Isn't the rule that pedestrians are supposed to go against traffic? That way you can see cars coming toward you rather than worrying about what's coming up behind you.

I'm a runner and I always run on the left side of the road (unless I'm coming around the bend on a rural road, in which case I'll briefly switch sides to ensure a car doesn't come roaring around the corner before they see me)

I agree 100%. But I think he’s talking about walking on a sidewalk or down a hallway and people are walking on the left side where people walking toward them are.

I say this all the time as somebody living in downtown NYC... If you're visiting- our sidewalks are like your streets. Make that a mantra. Stay to the right. Don't walk 4 across just because you're a family. Don't stop in the middle of the sidewalk to scratch yer gob or call Aunt Lucy to tell her you saw a celebrity... your legs work, in theory ; pretend there are 8-10 million people trying to get places so pull over to the side out of their way.

I hate when people come walking out of a store and don't even look left as they leave and practically walk into you. I make sure to walk really close behind them or past them. Sometimes they realize, most times they're oblivious.

Just happened again today. It was a big dude and he jumped when I wound up right next to him after 2 steps out the door...lol Made my day!

 

[Zeppelin]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

 

[El Floppo]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

Representative... Representative... Representative... Representative... ****ING REPRESENTATIVE!!!

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

I do have to admire the one for the local cafeteria. It says the name of the place and then immediately tells you the soups of the day. I have no idea what else it does. I'm happy at that point.

 

[the moops]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

I do have to admire the one for the local cafeteria. It says the name of the place and then immediately tells you the soups of the day. I have no idea what else it does. I'm happy at that point.

You call a local restaurant to hear the soups of the day? Are you 80?

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

I do have to admire the one for the local cafeteria. It says the name of the place and then immediately tells you the soups of the day. I have no idea what else it does. I'm happy at that point.

You call a local restaurant to hear the soups of the day? Are you 80?

Did you just call me old? Did you?

I don't like the veggie soup.

 

[the moops]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

I do have to admire the one for the local cafeteria. It says the name of the place and then immediately tells you the soups of the day. I have no idea what else it does. I'm happy at that point.

You call a local restaurant to hear the soups of the day? Are you 80?

Did you just call me old? Did you?

I don't like the veggie soup.

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[Mrs. Rannous]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

I do have to admire the one for the local cafeteria. It says the name of the place and then immediately tells you the soups of the day. I have no idea what else it does. I'm happy at that point.

You call a local restaurant to hear the soups of the day? Are you 80?

Did you just call me old? Did you?

I don't like the veggie soup.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

The cafeteria is closed right now, but we will be open tomorrow at 11 AM.

 

[3C's]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

Laughing at my wife today. She gets the automated phone tree, it says "in a few words, tell me how I can help you". She answers "2".

"I'm sorry, I'm having trouble trying to help you. Please enter the phone number associated with the account."
"2!"

 

[mr. furley]

but it's so much cheaper to have an automated phone tree than to pay employees to answer phone calls

so what if it turns people off and drives away customers

 

[General Malaise]

I HATE HATE HATE automated phone systems.

Just start with "cancellation" and you'll get to a human quickly.

 

[General Malaise]

I would call places that started their voicemail with a list of soups.

 

[rockaction]

I would call places that started their voicemail with a list of soups.

That is very much the appropriate way to deal with automation regarding soup. Think of it as an aural Warhol.

 

[bryhamm]

Instructions or directions on packaging that are now written in font the size of a gnats testicle.

 

[El Floppo]

Instructions or directions on packaging that are now written in font the size of a gnats testicle.

Go on...


But yeah. Also, medicine dosage instructions that are now hidden somewhere that involves peeling, unwrapping, secret handshakes, etc... instead of on the damn back of the container or box.

 

[Max Power]

Using a cellphone to record video at a funeral. Seems a bit distasteful... no?

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Instructions or directions on packaging that are now written in font the size of a gnats testicle.

Go on...


But yeah. Also, medicine dosage instructions that are now hidden somewhere that involves peeling, unwrapping, secret handshakes, etc... instead of on the damn back of the container or box.

Add in that the there’s 672 paragraphs about warnings that lawyers demand be on the bottle and the dosage instructions are one short sentence. All of this written on gnats testicle.