Can we discuss pet peeves here? (8 Viewers)

[Caesar]

Flight attendants whose ### is too big to fit down the aisle, so every time they go by they bump your arm and rub that stanky fat up against you.

Blech.

 

[Jobber]

Flight attendants whose ### is too big to fit down the aisle, so every time they go by they bump your arm and rub that stanky fat up against you.

Blech.

The airlines should be allowed to reboot their current crop of elderly stewardesses.

 

[gianmarco]

Automatically serving water in a restaurant with lemon in it.

 

[SlaX]

Public sinks with the push down timed water... Fine, you want to make sure I don't waste water, whatever... But at least let it be longer then 3 seconds. I used a sink and had to press the thing down 6 times. I need more than a quick mist to wash my hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZ6fmFirFE

 

[Statcruncher]

Automatically serving water in a restaurant with lemon in it.

So dumb to have to order it without. If I tell them I want water only I get a glass with no ice. If I tell them I want ice water only with no lemon I still get lemon half the time. Or they remember after the fact and fish out the lemon wedge & hope I won't notice the lemon taste or lemon seeds in the bottom of the glass.

 

[belljr]

Hotel patrons just letting their door slam close.

shut it yourself jerks

 

[gameday]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

 

[godgers12]

People who chew with their mouth open. Ugh.

 

[TheIronSheik]

When I stand in line at a store (or where ever) and it finally gets to be my turn. Then the phone rings and the worker says, "Excuse me", then answers the phone and helps that person. Why the hell do they get service quicker than me?

 

[El Floppo]

When I stand in line at a store (or where ever) and it finally gets to be my turn. Then the phone rings and the worker says, "Excuse me", then answers the phone and helps that person. Why the hell do they get service quicker than me?

(psst- you're an A-rab)

 

[JohnnyU]

Flight attendants whose ### is too big to fit down the aisle, so every time they go by they bump your arm and rub that stanky fat up against you.

Blech.

I kind of get my jollies from that

 

[gianmarco]

When I stand in line at a store (or where ever) and it finally gets to be my turn. Then the phone rings and the worker says, "Excuse me", then answers the phone and helps that person. Why the hell do they get service quicker than me?

That does remind me about some IRL shtick that makes me chuckle. I'll sometimes get in the express line at the supermarket when I've only got 1 or 2 things to get and ask the person in front if I can just go ahead since I only have a couple things as they're sitting there with ~8 items. Usually just draws a funny look but I've actually had someone tell me to go ahead. I just laughed.

 

[kentric]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

Easier to keep the flow of the traffic going if you pull onto a 55 mph road going 40-45 mph than coming to a complete stop and then trying to merge. If you're in the right lane of a two lane road (and are not about to exit) with no one on your left and people merging into the right lane, do you move over to the left lane? Hopefully you're in the majority and do. Its these people that I was referring to (as to me having no qualms about cutting in front of them).

 

[gameday]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

Easier to keep the flow of the traffic going if you pull onto a 55 mph road going 40-45 mph than coming to a complete stop and then trying to merge. If you're in the right lane of a two lane road (and are not about to exit) with no one on your left and people merging into the right lane, do you move over to the left lane? Hopefully you're in the majority and do. Its these people that I was referring to (as to me having no qualms about cutting in front of them).

Yeah, if there is no one in the left lane I pull over. The issue I have is with drivers who enter the freeway without looking, and are doing well below the speed limit. I'm not suggesting they should come to a stop. Rather, by the time they hit the lane they should have matched their speed to the flow of traffic, and hit an open spot.

 

[kentric]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

Easier to keep the flow of the traffic going if you pull onto a 55 mph road going 40-45 mph than coming to a complete stop and then trying to merge. If you're in the right lane of a two lane road (and are not about to exit) with no one on your left and people merging into the right lane, do you move over to the left lane? Hopefully you're in the majority and do. Its these people that I was referring to (as to me having no qualms about cutting in front of them).

Yeah, if there is no one in the left lane I pull over. The issue I have is with drivers who enter the freeway without looking, and are doing well below the speed limit. I'm not suggesting they should come to a stop. Rather, by the time they hit the lane they should have matched their speed to the flow of traffic, and hit an open spot.

Gotcha. I've got this one on-ramp in mind where you have to pick up speed toward the end of the ramp (just to get to 35-40) in order to merge or you end up having to stop and wait. Reminds me of another pet peeve. Those idiots woh don't know how to merge and end up sitting in front of you stopped and will only move out when they've got a 1/4 mile clearance to work with. You end up sitting for five minutes.

 

[Spock]

Deaf people talking/signing with food in their hands.

 

[Christo]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

That's complete The person merging is responsible for getting up to speed so traffic isn't impeded.

 

[Christo]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

Easier to keep the flow of the traffic going if you pull onto a 55 mph road going 40-45 mph than coming to a complete stop and then trying to merge. If you're in the right lane of a two lane road (and are not about to exit) with no one on your left and people merging into the right lane, do you move over to the left lane? Hopefully you're in the majority and do. Its these people that I was referring to (as to me having no qualms about cutting in front of them).

You should be going 55 mph not 40-45.

 

[butcher boy]

People who drive POS cars that break down, causing traffic. I've always felt there should be penalties for people who don't maintain their vehicles then they end up breaking down causing traffic jams and delays for thousands. That's a lot of time that people have had wasted because of some jerk who drove their car into the ground.

 

[fatness]

Crepe myrtles.

POS looking tree planted in every damn office park and shopping center around here. They look like faded artificial plants left over from funerals.

 

[dschuler]

Crepe myrtles.

POS looking tree planted in every damn office park and shopping center around here. They look like faded artificial plants left over from funerals.

At my old job the owner was trying to get his parking lot resurfaced. However, he was unable to do so because if he hired a contractor to replace the asphalt, he would have to comply within the new city regulations of planting X amount of tress and bushes and stuff. This would required a cement barrier where all of this extra vegetation would be living. However, it would cost about an extra $20k just to comply within the city regulations, which isn't something he wanted to do with such a small parking lot. He would also have to somehow create parking spots out of thin air because he couldn't reduce the amount of parking spots in the shopping center due to the amount of traffic the city "calculated" that went through it. So he had to get his lawyer to draft up a written consent giving his customers permission to park in another business parking area in the event that his parking lot did not suffice enough parking. I worked there for a couple of years and not once did I ever see the parking lot even get close to filling up so it was pretty hilarious.

So to make a long story short, when you see trees and bushes planted in great parking areas taking up space, it is because there is a city ordinance somewhere requiring them to be there.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

i once named my pet peeves

 

[fatness]

So to make a long story short, when you see trees and bushes planted in great parking areas taking up space, it is because there is a city ordinance somewhere requiring them to be there.

Thanks, and yeah, we have to deal with that around here too. A lot of the required trees and plants are pretty darn nice looking though. Crepe myrtles (at least around here) look like funeral home throwaways.

 

[Jayrok]

Spider webs. I could be walking along the shore on a secluded beach on an island with no trees somewhere and I would walk through part of an invisible spider web.

Man that drives me coconuts.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Spider webs. I could be walking along the shore on a secluded beach on an island with no trees somewhere and I would walk through part of an invisible spider web.

Man that drives me coconuts.

you know what drives ME coconuts????? Coconuts

 

[Leroy Hoard]

i once named my pet peeves

For some reason this really bothers me.

 

[kentric]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

That's complete The person merging is responsible for getting up to speed so traffic isn't impeded.

I'm not talking responsibility, I'm talking courtesy. If you're not courteous enough to move over into an empty lane and let me merge in, then I'm not going to return the courtesy

 

[kentric]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

Conversely, I hate idiots who blindly meander down the entrance ramp, hit the freeway at 40 - 45 mph, don't bother looking to check on traffic, and just simply roll into the lane of traffic assuming everyone else will adjust to make room for them. It's the responsibility of the person entering the highway to modulate their speed to smoothly enter the flow of traffic. My M.O. is to drive a big honking beat up truck. They can either bounce off it or learn how to merge.

Easier to keep the flow of the traffic going if you pull onto a 55 mph road going 40-45 mph than coming to a complete stop and then trying to merge. If you're in the right lane of a two lane road (and are not about to exit) with no one on your left and people merging into the right lane, do you move over to the left lane? Hopefully you're in the majority and do. Its these people that I was referring to (as to me having no qualms about cutting in front of them).

You should be going 55 mph not 40-45.

I completely agree if you are working with an on-ramp which gives you sufficient room to get up to 55.

 

[gameday]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

That's complete The person merging is responsible for getting up to speed so traffic isn't impeded.

I'm not talking responsibility, I'm talking courtesy. If you're not courteous enough to move over into an empty lane and let me merge in, then I'm not going to return the courtesy

Here's another related one that pisses me off. When I'm zooming down the on-ramp at 55 mph, and have matched traffic to seamlessly guide into an open spot, some ##### in the right lane increases his speed so that he can keep me from merging ahead of him. Often I sense they do that because they assume I'll be entering at a low mph and they don't want to be stuck behind me, but all they achieve is to barrel up behind me so that they're precisely next to me when I'm about to merge.

 

[Jobber]

• People who, when they're going from an on-ramp on a highway onto the highway feel compelled to put on their left directional. Hey dude, what else were you going to do?

I actually do this to let people know I'm not yielding and I'm merging into traffic.

On a related issue, i hate idiots who won't move over on a merge when there's no upcoming exit for them to get off on and there's room in the lane to the left of them. My M.O. on this is to cut right in front of them so they have to slow down.

That's complete The person merging is responsible for getting up to speed so traffic isn't impeded.

I'm not talking responsibility, I'm talking courtesy. If you're not courteous enough to move over into an empty lane and let me merge in, then I'm not going to return the courtesy

Yeah there's a fine line here. It's the merger's responsibility to merge, but half the time jackwagons will purposely closes up the opportunity for you to be able to merge. That's when I just keep drifting over and eventually they chicken out and let me in.

 

[GregR]

Why does it seem like every single clerk balances change on top of bills when giving change?

If you want to put the bills away, you have to slide the change into your palm to hold so you can get the bills with your fingers. If you want to put the change away, you again have to slide the change into your palm so you have some control over it as you get it into your pocket.

Just put the coins in my palm and hand me the bills. Minor thing, but irritating when you have your arms full and have to set everything back down to free up your other hand.

 

[The Big Guy]

Sentence finishers annoy me. Stop trying to guess the last word and finish the sentence with me. I will purposely look for different words just so we are not saying the same thing when you try to do this with me.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Mine for the day:

People who don't understand the concept of an "up" & "down" button for the elevator. If you press both buttons and you're going down, an elevator on the way up will stop at your floor, this doesn't help you, idiot! Then you look like a complete maroon when the door opens, the 3 people in there don't get out, & you say "Durrrr, is this going down?"

Still makes me nuts a year later, still happens frequently.

 

[xulf]

Sentence finishers annoy me. Stop trying to guess the last word and finish the sentence with me. I will purposely look for different words just so we are not saying the same thing when you try to do this with me.

...ME!

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

People who write or say "dominate" as an adjective, when they should use "dominant".

Example: "Felix Hernandez has been a dominate pitcher over the past five seasons."

Great way to show off that the speaker/writer is a ####### moron.

 

[Spin]

Running out of "likes", Then I have to go back and decide if something I liked earlier was truly like-worthy considering the new material I just recently read.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Sentence finishers annoy me. Stop trying to guess the last word and finish the sentence with me. I will purposely look for different words just so we are not saying the same thing when you try to do this with me.

me. Aww. I knew you were going to say that.

 

[Van Dyman]

Drive-thru cashiers who suck at math, can't understand why I gave them a bill and coins. The freaking at Arby's drive-thru drives girl me nuts every time.

Example: my food costs $9.79. I'm trying to reduce the total count of coins in my car so I give her $10.04. She gives me one dime, two nickels, and five pennies back. Just give me a #### quarter!

ETA: One time she even said "You only gave me four cents."

ETA2: Reminded me of this.

 

[Spin]

Drive-thru cashiers who suck at math, can't understand why I gave them a bill and coins. The freaking at Arby's drive-thru drives girl me nuts every time.

Example: my food costs $9.79. I'm trying to reduce the total count of coins in my car so I give her $10.04. She gives me one dime, two nickels, and five pennies back. Just give me a #### quarter!

ETA: One time she even said "You only gave me four cents."

The best is Sonic workers. At least all the drive through people have to do is punch it into their register, and the correct change is displayed for them. At Sonic, the workers have to do the math right then. It became such a problem, that at the bottom of the receipts they print the change to the nearest dollar.

So if your total was $10.67, they will have "0.33" printed at the bottom. But if you give them change with your dollars, most of the time they'll just stare blankly until you tell them what change to hand back.

 

[Van Dyman]

Drive-thru cashiers who suck at math, can't understand why I gave them a bill and coins. The freaking at Arby's drive-thru drives girl me nuts every time.

Example: my food costs $9.79. I'm trying to reduce the total count of coins in my car so I give her $10.04. She gives me one dime, two nickels, and five pennies back. Just give me a #### quarter!

ETA: One time she even said "You only gave me four cents."

The best is Sonic workers. At least all the drive through people have to do is punch it into their register, and the correct change is displayed for them. At Sonic, the workers have to do the math right then. It became such a problem, that at the bottom of the receipts they print the change to the nearest dollar.

So if your total was $10.67, they will have "0.33" printed at the bottom. But if you give them change with your dollars, most of the time they'll just stare blankly until you tell them what change to hand back.

Agreed. I no longer give anything other than bills at fast food. I'm embarrassed for our state.

 

[TheIronSheik]

There is nothing wrong with not being able to do math. Not everyone was blessed with math ability, pig ####ers.

 

[arrow1]

posts on merging

 

[TheIronSheik]

Merging of posts.

 

[B Maverick]

Drive-thru cashiers who suck at math, can't understand why I gave them a bill and coins. The freaking at Arby's drive-thru drives girl me nuts every time.

Example: my food costs $9.79. I'm trying to reduce the total count of coins in my car so I give her $10.04. She gives me one dime, two nickels, and five pennies back. Just give me a #### quarter!

ETA: One time she even said "You only gave me four cents."

The best is Sonic workers. At least all the drive through people have to do is punch it into their register, and the correct change is displayed for them. At Sonic, the workers have to do the math right then. It became such a problem, that at the bottom of the receipts they print the change to the nearest dollar.

So if your total was $10.67, they will have "0.33" printed at the bottom. But if you give them change with your dollars, most of the time they'll just stare blankly until you tell them what change to hand back.

Agreed. I no longer give anything other than bills at fast food. I'm embarrassed for our state.

Try really messing with them and giving them $21.35 on a $16.34 tab....

 

[Van Dyman]

Drive-thru cashiers who suck at math, can't understand why I gave them a bill and coins. The freaking at Arby's drive-thru drives girl me nuts every time.

Example: my food costs $9.79. I'm trying to reduce the total count of coins in my car so I give her $10.04. She gives me one dime, two nickels, and five pennies back. Just give me a #### quarter!

ETA: One time she even said "You only gave me four cents."

The best is Sonic workers. At least all the drive through people have to do is punch it into their register, and the correct change is displayed for them. At Sonic, the workers have to do the math right then. It became such a problem, that at the bottom of the receipts they print the change to the nearest dollar.

So if your total was $10.67, they will have "0.33" printed at the bottom. But if you give them change with your dollars, most of the time they'll just stare blankly until you tell them what change to hand back.

Agreed. I no longer give anything other than bills at fast food. I'm embarrassed for our state.

Try really messing with them and giving them $21.35 on a $16.34 tab....

Yes, I already know how that turns out. She's given me more than a dollar in coins several times.

 

[Van Dyman]

People who perpetuate false stereotypes about pig ####ers.

 

[xulf]

People who don't use their credit cards at the fast food window.

 

[Van Dyman]

People who steal other people's credit card info and charge two chainsaws at Wal-Mart.

 

[Jobber]

People who don't use their credit cards at the fast food window.

And people who dig around for small coins just so they can end up with bigger coins. Ever hear of a change jar, ***hat?

 

[Christo]

People who write or say "dominate" as an adjective, when they should use "dominant".

Example: "Felix Hernandez has been a dominate pitcher over the past five seasons."

Great way to show off that the speaker/writer is a ####### moron.

I HATE this one.