Can we discuss pet peeves here? (36 Viewers)

[General Malaise]

You guys and you're pet peeves related to being annoyed by your spouse come supper time are just downright adorable.

Imagine if you will that one day, after 10 years of marriage to the same woman, your wife informed you out of the blue with no forewarning that she was 100% vegan. No more cheese, no more fish, no more crab, no more dairy of any kind....no more 'normal' flour or regular old sugar.....no more honey, no more Sriracha Sauce, nothing that's ever touched, smelled or looked at an animal product was to be consumed by this spouse.

Furthermore, imagine said wife was able to pull two of your five children over to the darkside with her and two of the five who haven't completely lost their sanity went off to college, leaving you, the meat-eating, cheese-worshiping, knuckle-dragging man of the house with just one 7-year old child left who still enjoys the delicious taste of animal.

Picture painted, it's 4pm, you've arrived home from work and are greeted by your vegan wife with the following query: "Do you have any taste for dinner tonight"?

"Yes, honey, I do....only the things I have a taste for aren't made out of flax seeds, cashew milk and kale!"

We used to have a piece of notebook paper on the side of our fridge with about 75 different dinner ideas written on there. Genius idea! It helped solve the dreaded dinner question for 5+ glorious years. That piece of paper? GONE! Ripped to shreds. I don't know what to make for dinner, love.....I didn't go to vegan school, I don't know what ethically sourced plant based matter I'm permitted to eat.

It's fine, the marriage is fine, this is fine.

Pours out soy milk....

It's oat milk.

 

[belljr]

I gave up remembering to bring in the reusable bags from the car so I just run groceries thru self-checkout and pack them back into the cart or the basket. Then I load the groceries into the bags that are in my trunk taking my sweet time, then return cart to the wrangler. Wa La.

I just get them delivered look at me

 

[the moops]

I often go to this grocery store down the street from my house. For those familiar with twin cities it is called Lunds and Byerlys. I like the store - a little pricey, but they have good BOGO deals and a nice produce selection. Anyway, this particular store has two types of workers - 70 years and older or special needs teenagers. And besides me, the median age of the shopper is 75. It takes forever to get in and out of there, but I have managed to teach myself to get really high, put in some ear buds and just stroll around like all the old people. I leave my cart in the middle of the aisle, take forever to pick out an orange, and generally just enjoy the slowness. However, when I happen to go in there sober I want to kill everyone

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

You guys and you're pet peeves related to being annoyed by your spouse come supper time are just downright adorable.

Imagine if you will that one day, after 10 years of marriage to the same woman, your wife informed you out of the blue with no forewarning that she was 100% vegan. No more cheese, no more fish, no more crab, no more dairy of any kind....no more 'normal' flour or regular old sugar.....no more honey, no more Sriracha Sauce, nothing that's ever touched, smelled or looked at an animal product was to be consumed by this spouse.

Furthermore, imagine said wife was able to pull two of your five children over to the darkside with her and two of the five who haven't completely lost their sanity went off to college, leaving you, the meat-eating, cheese-worshiping, knuckle-dragging man of the house with just one 7-year old child left who still enjoys the delicious taste of animal.

Picture painted, it's 4pm, you've arrived home from work and are greeted by your vegan wife with the following query: "Do you have any taste for dinner tonight"?

"Yes, honey, I do....only the things I have a taste for aren't made out of flax seeds, cashew milk and kale!"

We used to have a piece of notebook paper on the side of our fridge with about 75 different dinner ideas written on there. Genius idea! It helped solve the dreaded dinner question for 5+ glorious years. That piece of paper? GONE! Ripped to shreds. I don't know what to make for dinner, love.....I didn't go to vegan school, I don't know what ethically sourced plant based matter I'm permitted to eat.

It's fine, the marriage is fine, this is fine.

I'd sleep with the nanny

Me, too. I like cow. And fish. And honey.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

You guys and you're pet peeves related to being annoyed by your spouse come supper time are just downright adorable.

Imagine if you will that one day, after 10 years of marriage to the same woman, your wife informed you out of the blue with no forewarning that she was 100% vegan. No more cheese, no more fish, no more crab, no more dairy of any kind....no more 'normal' flour or regular old sugar.....no more honey, no more Sriracha Sauce, nothing that's ever touched, smelled or looked at an animal product was to be consumed by this spouse.

Furthermore, imagine said wife was able to pull two of your five children over to the darkside with her and two of the five who haven't completely lost their sanity went off to college, leaving you, the meat-eating, cheese-worshiping, knuckle-dragging man of the house with just one 7-year old child left who still enjoys the delicious taste of animal.

Picture painted, it's 4pm, you've arrived home from work and are greeted by your vegan wife with the following query: "Do you have any taste for dinner tonight"?

"Yes, honey, I do....only the things I have a taste for aren't made out of flax seeds, cashew milk and kale!"

We used to have a piece of notebook paper on the side of our fridge with about 75 different dinner ideas written on there. Genius idea! It helped solve the dreaded dinner question for 5+ glorious years. That piece of paper? GONE! Ripped to shreds. I don't know what to make for dinner, love.....I didn't go to vegan school, I don't know what ethically sourced plant based matter I'm permitted to eat.

It's fine, the marriage is fine, this is fine.

Pours out soy milk....

It's oat milk.

Shoot me now. How does one milk an oat, anyway?

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Shoot me now. How does one milk an oat, anyway?

oat nipples.

 

[the moops]

Oat milk is great you losers

 

[Early_10]

Parents/partners who call for quotes for their children's/spouses insurance but don't know anything about their car, driving experience, tickets, accidents. Go away!

 

[supermike80]

I dunno...saw this commercial last night for a credit union. Some nurse, with a degree, buried in debt....Couldn't get a loan from a bank. So she called <insert name here credit union> and was able to get a debt consolidation loan. Lowered her monthly payment, reduced her interest rate.
So now said nurse can save for that trip to italy!
NOOOOO...Woman please. You're in debt, you need to take a freakin loan to pay your debt, the LAST thing you should be doing is blowing money, you basically dont have, on a trip.

 

[arrow1]

Cars making a right turn on red waiting until the exact second the oncoming left turn arrow turns green , then turning into the second lane in front of left turning car.

 

[belljr]

I dunno...saw this commercial last night for a credit union. Some nurse, with a degree, buried in debt....Couldn't get a loan from a bank. So she called <insert name here credit union> and was able to get a debt consolidation loan. Lowered her monthly payment, reduced her interest rate.
So now said nurse can save for that trip to italy!
NOOOOO...Woman please. You're in debt, you need to take a freakin loan to pay your debt, the LAST thing you should be doing is blowing money, you basically dont have, on a trip.

You've just basically described my sister-in-law

 

[BeTheMatch]

People starting political threads in the FFA

 

[Dezbelief]

I dunno...saw this commercial last night for a credit union. Some nurse, with a degree, buried in debt....Couldn't get a loan from a bank. So she called <insert name here credit union> and was able to get a debt consolidation loan. Lowered her monthly payment, reduced her interest rate.
So now said nurse can save for that trip to italy!
NOOOOO...Woman please. You're in debt, you need to take a freakin loan to pay your debt, the LAST thing you should be doing is blowing money, you basically dont have, on a trip.

You've just basically described my sister-in-law

Reminded me of someone too. The conversation started out talking about the huge tax return they were getting. The next part of the conversation involved interest rates going up on a maxed out card causing higher minimum payments. All I could think about for the rest of the conversation was why wouldn't they just take a portion of the tax return and pay off the card.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I dunno...saw this commercial last night for a credit union. Some nurse, with a degree, buried in debt....Couldn't get a loan from a bank. So she called <insert name here credit union> and was able to get a debt consolidation loan. Lowered her monthly payment, reduced her interest rate.
So now said nurse can save for that trip to italy!
NOOOOO...Woman please. You're in debt, you need to take a freakin loan to pay your debt, the LAST thing you should be doing is blowing money, you basically dont have, on a trip.

You've just basically described my sister-in-law

Reminded me of someone too. The conversation started out talking about the huge tax return they were getting. The next part of the conversation involved interest rates going up on a maxed out card causing higher minimum payments. All I could think about for the rest of the conversation was why wouldn't they just take a portion of the tax return and pay off the card.

Because they are stupid. I thought that was obvious.

 

[DallasDMac]

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

I plan for 3-4 cooked dinners per week. Our schedule can fluctuate suddenly due to daughter's activities, so we need to be flexible.

Yea, planning out an entire weeks of meals sounds terrible. How about some spontanaity? What if there is a good deal on some delicious looking foods at the grocery store?

Spontaneity is just what people that are sh.... at planning use as the excuse.

 

[Drunken knight]

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

I plan for 3-4 cooked dinners per week. Our schedule can fluctuate suddenly due to daughter's activities, so we need to be flexible.

Yea, planning out an entire weeks of meals sounds terrible. How about some spontanaity? What if there is a good deal on some delicious looking foods at the grocery store?

Spontaneity is just what people that are sh.... at planning use as the excuse.

It was easier to plan events for 1500 than my 16 yr old daughter

 

[fatness]

Wa La

"Voila"
/pet peeve

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Wa La

"Voila"
/pet peeve

Also the people who spell it "viola".

 

[fatness]

Also the people who spell it "viola".

Agree.

 

[The General]

around here garbage cans are only on curbs on pickup day. so if someone drops a bag of dogshit in there it's getting hauled away before going back in the garage.

sure someone could drop a bag in after pickup is done, but i'm not in the practice of rooting around in the bottom of the garbage can to smell what's in there.

so long as it's not a body, what the hell do i care.

Garbage cans go out in the morning. At work or gone when the garbage dudes come. The empty can sits there for a couple hours and someone drops a bag of dogshit in it. The can then goes back into my garage if you don’t notice it then can easily split open and stink up the joint for a week.

It‘s crazy to me people do this and don’t take it back home with them.

 

[The General]

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

Big fan of the planned out dinners. This way I don’t come back with 8 bags of Doritos and some arugula for the week.

 

[jhib]

Speaking of groceries, one of the local stores still has those stupid paper circulars with five or six coupons in it. (I could probably just stop there...)
The coupons are sometimes decent, but I just wish they were typical shoppers club savings or at least online coupons so you didn't have to tear out paper ones.

Anyway, they usually have a stack of them in a rack when you walk in, so I'll grab one to see if there are any coupons I'm interested in. Four out of five times, there are coupons missing from the one I grab, because someone tore them out and thought they'd help everyone else out by putting the rest of the circular back on the stack when they left.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Wa La

"Voila"
/pet peeve

Toot sweet.

And I don't have a problem with viola, either. I took French for five years. I have suffered enough.

 

[belljr]

Wa La

"Voila"
/pet peeve

Chow!@#

 

[psychobillies]

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

I plan for 3-4 cooked dinners per week. Our schedule can fluctuate suddenly due to daughter's activities, so we need to be flexible.

Yea, planning out an entire weeks of meals sounds terrible. How about some spontanaity? What if there is a good deal on some delicious looking foods at the grocery store?

Spontaneity is just what people that are sh.... at planning use as the excuse.

Or maybe planning is just what people that are sh... at spontaneity use as an excuse.

 

[Drunken knight]

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

My wife plans the entire week's meal schedule before we go to the grocery store. She's awesome that way. And it totally eliminates impulse buying.

I plan for 3-4 cooked dinners per week. Our schedule can fluctuate suddenly due to daughter's activities, so we need to be flexible.

Yea, planning out an entire weeks of meals sounds terrible. How about some spontanaity? What if there is a good deal on some delicious looking foods at the grocery store?

Spontaneity is just what people that are sh.... at planning use as the excuse.

Or maybe planning is just what people that are sh... at spontaneity use as an excuse.

now that's fair. I am a planner.

 

[General Malaise]

Wa La

"Voila"
/pet peeve

You knew here? This is certified and patented FBG schtick, GB.....

 

[General Malaise]

around here garbage cans are only on curbs on pickup day. so if someone drops a bag of dogshit in there it's getting hauled away before going back in the garage.

sure someone could drop a bag in after pickup is done, but i'm not in the practice of rooting around in the bottom of the garbage can to smell what's in there.

so long as it's not a body, what the hell do i care.

Garbage cans go out in the morning. At work or gone when the garbage dudes come. The empty can sits there for a couple hours and someone drops a bag of dogshit in it. The can then goes back into my garage if you don’t notice it then can easily split open and stink up the joint for a week.

It‘s crazy to me people do this and don’t take it back home with them.

Does this can have a lid?

 

[BeTheMatch]

Alaska Airlines

 

[The General]

around here garbage cans are only on curbs on pickup day. so if someone drops a bag of dogshit in there it's getting hauled away before going back in the garage.

sure someone could drop a bag in after pickup is done, but i'm not in the practice of rooting around in the bottom of the garbage can to smell what's in there.

so long as it's not a body, what the hell do i care.

Garbage cans go out in the morning. At work or gone when the garbage dudes come. The empty can sits there for a couple hours and someone drops a bag of dogshit in it. The can then goes back into my garage if you don’t notice it then can easily split open and stink up the joint for a week.

It‘s crazy to me people do this and don’t take it back home with them.

Does this can have a lid?

It does

Keep your dog poop hands off of it!

 

[BeTheMatch]

Alaska Airlines

Delayed. Told that will be only delay. Delayed again. Moved up. Delayed again. Boarding stopped in the middle for "maintenance issues."

 

[leftcoastguy7]

People that have headlights that are BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN.
How are these legal? Driving home tonight so much of the oncoming traffic was completely blinding.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

People that have headlights that are BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN.
How are these legal? Driving home tonight so much of the oncoming traffic was completely blinding.

And the businesses by the road that have blinding lights pointed at traffic. Not cool.

 

[parasaurolophus]

People that eat weird.

My brother makes me want to vomit when he eats oatmeal.

 

[arrow1]

Motorists who lane change into a space between other cars that are two inches longer than their car.

 

[General Malaise]

People that eat weird.

My brother makes me want to vomit when he eats oatmeal.

People who suck their fingers eating things like chicken wings or ribs out in public make me question, well, everything. The noise people make doing this is just gross.

 

[the moops]

People that eat weird.

My brother makes me want to vomit when he eats oatmeal.

People who suck their fingers eating things like chicken wings or ribs out in public make me question, well, everything. The noise people make doing this is just gross.

Says the man that films himself eating all sorts of weird things

 

[General Malaise]

People that eat weird.

My brother makes me want to vomit when he eats oatmeal.

People who suck their fingers eating things like chicken wings or ribs out in public make me question, well, everything. The noise people make doing this is just gross.

Says the man that films himself eating all sorts of weird things IN PRIVATE!!!!

FYP

 

[belljr]

Motorists who lane change into a space between other cars that are two inches longer than their car.

Especially when I'm following too closely as is at 85mph

 

[MTskibum]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

 

[Scoresman]

A new pet peeve of mine at the grocery stores is based around employees restocking shelves. They seem to be doing it more and more during peak shopping times ,and when they do, they take up way too much space, even blocking the aisle completely at times. I don't now how many times a day restocks are needed, but surely they can schedule a lot of these around non-peak shopping times. It would be less annoying for them too since there would be less people politely asking them to move out of the way so we can do our shopping.

 

[General Malaise]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

 

[General Malaise]

A new pet peeve of mine at the grocery stores is based around employees restocking shelves. They seem to be doing it more and more during peak shopping times ,and when they do, they take up way too much space, even blocking the aisle completely at times. I don't now how many times a day restocks are needed, but surely they can schedule a lot of these around non-peak shopping times. It would be less annoying for them too since there would be less people politely asking them to move out of the way so we can do our shopping.

YES! When did they start doing this during peak hours? I was always under the impression this was done late at night/early morning....

Another wretched addition to super markets (at least the ones I use) are the online shopping orders - the folks wrangling the groceries are always clogging up the aisles. It's like they don't know where items are located and just let their massive trollies linger as they search for that item. It's infuriating.

 

[belljr]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

Well in theory. The nerf package should be recycled where straws are not and make it into the environment easier.

 

[belljr]

A new pet peeve of mine at the grocery stores is based around employees restocking shelves. They seem to be doing it more and more during peak shopping times ,and when they do, they take up way too much space, even blocking the aisle completely at times. I don't now how many times a day restocks are needed, but surely they can schedule a lot of these around non-peak shopping times. It would be less annoying for them too since there would be less people politely asking them to move out of the way so we can do our shopping.

YES! When did they start doing this during peak hours? I was always under the impression this was done late at night/early morning....

Another wretched addition to super markets (at least the ones I use) are the online shopping orders - the folks wrangling the groceries are always clogging up the aisles. It's like they don't know where items are located and just let their massive trollies linger as they search for that item. It's infuriating.

We're definitely short staffed at ours that's why the restock happens during the day

 

[MTskibum]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

Well in theory. The nerf package should be recycled where straws are not and make it into the environment easier.

In theory and in practice plastic is not recyclable.

 

[General Malaise]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

Well in theory. The nerf package should be recycled where straws are not and make it into the environment easier.

That makes sense. I hope that's the case.

But begs the question - we use recycled plastic for water bottles, why not straws?

 

[belljr]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

Well in theory. The nerf package should be recycled where straws are not and make it into the environment easier.

That makes sense. I hope that's the case.

But begs the question - we use recycled plastic for water bottles, why not straws?

Unfortunately, plastic straws are made from polypropylene, which isn't accepted by most domestic recycling scheme

And ones that are not polypropylene Plastic straws are too lightweight to make it through the mechanical recycling sorter. They drop through sorting screens and mix with other materials and are too small to separate, contaminating recycling loads or getting disposed as garbage. Because straws are non-recyclable, they end up landfills.


Also shore towns removed them because they would blow into water ways

Ftr I refuse to use paper straws

 

[DA RAIDERS]

NJ took away the paper-vs-plastic choice. They banned both and require customers to use reusable bags (or none at all).

In those reusable bags you are putting milk in a plastic container, produce in plastic bags, meat shrinkwrapped in plastic, cereal and crackers wrapped in both plastic and surrounded by cardboard, etc, etc


Don't get me wrong, I use reusable bags and even have reusable produce bags I can wash in the dishwasher. However, they are legislating 0.01% of plastic just to make people feel good.

My pet peeve is too many plastics

/rant

I like the cut of your jib!

Xmas presents to kids are another violator - the amount of waste in packaging is staggering to me. We outlaw plastic straws but a Nerf Football needs 5lbs of plastic and cardboard? WTF?

The paper straws we have at work, are individually wrapped in paper. But hey, no plastic.

 

[MTskibum]

I am about to go to 2 hours straight of meetings, probably could do a separate post on that , so this will be my last post where i hijack this thread.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse

The report cites separate data published this May which revealed that the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%. That number is expected to drop further as more plastic is produced.