PET PEEVES

“A few years ago, I thought of inventing a little gadget that you could point at an offending cell phone, that would mock a cell tower enough to force the phone to switch, and then disconnect them. Then digital phones came in, and the whole thing got more difficult.

I suppose that technology could be modified for movie theaters and churchs and the like, where you don't want people to use their cellphones, but people do anyway.”

“A few of my own:

1. People that blow off fireworks on days other than the fourth of July. The little ones don't bug me too much. I just don't like the mortor shells that sound like someone is empting a shotgun.

2. People that wait to the last second to merge into different lane because lane they are currently in ends because of construction. I do my best not to let these #&%!$ers in and have caused one douchebag to hit the sign that lights up.

3. People that drive with the bass turned up to level 46 at 1:30 AM. Last year, a kid in our neighboorhood did this all the time. People got sick of it and someone broke into his car and cut all the speakers and left a note. It read something like if you replace the speakers and do this again, I will cut more that the speakers.”

“When my dog decides to eat my new shoes.”

“On #1, when you let someone butt in front of you in traffic and then don't get a thank you. I don't do it to receive a thank you, granted, but it's still rude.

TB - to take that one a step further, my wife and her sister will be talking on the phone, the sister will be at home and use the restroom while on the phone. It drives my wife crazy. They'll be talking and I'll hear her say, "Are you in the bathroom? Do we really have to talk while you're in the potty?" Her sis is glued to a phone 24/7. I probably shouldn't go down the road of annoying sister in law stories though.”

“Oh, I forgot, people who cannot drive and talk on the phone at the same time.”

“WK,
1. I second that...it starts in our neighborhood about a month and a half before the 4th and lasts a month and a half later. The upside is the fireworks in our neighborhood were actually better than the ones downtown

2. Sorry, this was probably me LOL

3. I can't stand people that spend more money on their stereo than i did on my car.

Y2
My dog ate the sleeve off my brand new rain jacket???!!!”

“8%12&. Not verry stinky butts.”

“i read this super-hilarious article about pet peeves the other night. yeah i know it's long, i was bored!

http://www.viceland.com/issues/v11n7/htdocs/the_vice.php”

“That was enlightening, and I only made it about a fifth of the way through.”

“Bit, I like your idea, but I think it would be a great idea if you had a transmitter in your car with about a 100 yard range. Any cell phones would disconnect immediately. Another thing would be to have a white noise generator on that freq. By the way what freq do cell phones use?”

“the Fashion Dos & Don'ts are really good too!”

“bit & squirrel - what you describe has been invented:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7824”

“3. People that drive with the bass turned up to level 46 at 1:30 AM. Last year, a kid in our neighboorhood did this all the time. People got sick of it and someone broke into his car and cut all the speakers and left a note. It read something like if you replace the speakers and do this again, I will cut more that the speakers.”
Wounded Knee
11:54:06 AM
8/10/05
ignore this user

3a. People that honk their horn when picking someone up at 2:30am because they are too lazy to get out of the car and ring the doorbell. When I was in college there was someone who did this almost every night.”

“Pet peeve threads...”

“I don't have any pet peeves. I wouldn't know what to feed them!”

“LOL @ nigal

rimshot for tree”

“Nigal - You beat me to it.”

“Sorry, I do # 12 (ie. "dicentra and I saw whales last weekend.") Sorry if you find it pretentious for folks to use proper grammar. ; )

dayhiker? Was it you who likes to be thanked on the road with a wave. I can't do this unless my window is open. Tinted windows. So don't be offended if not everyone thanks you. They might be having nice thoughts about you and your polite driving instead. : )

I hate hate hate when people are using their phones in the restroom. What an invasion of other's privacy.

Some of my other pet peeves:
People who drip water all over the bathroom floor after their shower, so others then walk through it in their stocking feet. ick!

People who fill the garbage can to overflowing, making changing the bag a big messy pain in the arse.

People who wake me up because they insist on talking loudly, instead of being courteous and quiet.

People who are just plain mean and have no regard for others, like the jerk who keyed the J Peterman.”

“pixie - You used it correctly, which isn't a pet peeve of mine. The sentence in #12 is incorrect usage. ; )”

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People who fill the garbage can to overflowing, making changing the bag a big messy pain in the arse.

pixie
12:45:14 PM
8/10/05

Good thing you don't live with my wife then.”

“Jeeze, you guys need to get outdoors more or at least give zoloft or xanax a try. Let the little stuff go.”

“I really dislike those dog bone shaped stickers they put on cd cases. I can never seem to get them off with out having to spout a few choice curse words.”

“Pet peeves... hmmm...

pets that peeve all over my rugs when the litter box is 2 feet away!”

“Me does #12 too.”

“ people that try to act smart and say "I" instead of "me", like "It is time for Timmy and I to have our tea

on a related note, people who try to use five-dollar words that theyve heard, but use them incorrectly. i actually heard this once: "im looking for a man who i can have a half-way intelligible conversation with"”

“driving pet peeves, btw, deserve a thread all their own. so do online peeves

btw, does anyone know the etymological (theres my five dollar word) origin of "peeve"?”

“people that dont signal when they turn-and cig. butts all over the place, smokers are the biggest slobs-”

“heres one relating to a conversation you and i had s-rge:

People who ask a question, but have actually made a statement ie. "Everything's in the bag?"

also, people who end a sentence with "with": "im going to the store, want to come with?"

i fvcking hate that. dont talk cute. just ask me the fvckng question”

“True dat!”

“I'm going out for beer, who wants to come with?”

“middle class white people who talk like urban blacks!”

“Yo! Yo! What up wit dat crash? Why you be hate'n?”

“nigga, please!
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“Man when I camp with ya'll i'm gonna sleep with one eye open....getting close to postal on some of these.

My pet peeve is that I hate the word "frig" if you are too lazy to say refrigerator then you deserve to starve. You don't say, "hold that vator" when you want to get on an elevator.”

“actually, its "fridge"

"frig" is something else entirely :-)”

“my pet peeve- sarcasim :)”

“Dude! freighttrain! I forgot that one. I hate that too.

"Just stick it in the fridge."

Oh man .... I hate that.

Also, "Nuke it." (for microwaving food)

Here's the worse ...

"I'm going to nuke some veggies and stick 'em in the fridge later for you to munch on."

Why don't you just drag your fingernails down the chalkboard while you're at it?”

“dick-munching crack-babies”

“I'll start this off by saying I'm a Mountain Dew freak. I hate when I go to a restaurant and order Mountain Dew and the response is we don't have MD, we have SPRITE. UGH that drives me bananas! SPRITE doesn't have caffeine and MD is loaded with it. HUGE difference. I'm ok with a Mello Yello substitute b/c that's along the same lines as MD.”

“Or when people bring cell phones into public restrooms. Grrr!”
treebait
10:51:49 AM
8/10/05

Vey easy solution. Make really nasty wet fart noises.

The use of the word "carbs" instead of carbohydrates, and benies as in benefits.
last edited: 8/10/05 7:27:05 PM”

“lol @ mrs opie...i'm a big root beer fan and i get that too "we have dr pepper"”

“isn't it annoying????

root beer isn't anything like dr. pepper other than the color!”

“Do you know what irks methe most???


When someone freakin leaves an empty dish in the fridge. I mean come on, did the leftovers attack each other and eat the losser??

And I get really irritated when I find eggshells in the garbage when they belong in the compost :P

And to top all those things, you know when you take a picture of someone and you get the pictures developed, and find out that there is a tree or a telephone pole sticking out of someones head? OOOOOOOO GRRRRR That really gets me wound up! Now were is my beretta?
last edited: 8/10/05 9:18:11 PM”

“people who pay a dollar or more for bottled water out of a vending machine”

“I have a couple myself...

1). weak handshakes
2) Not saying "thank you"
3) people I don't know, who call me honey
4) pee on toilet seat
5) people on the left lane driving slower then the speed limit
6) strawberry and peach air freshners [yuck]
7) hate it too...loud eaters
8) ashtrays in front of me while eating.

I know there is more....”

“1). weak handshakes

i have small hands (yea, yea, make your effing jokes), and i dont have a weak handshake, but i hate it when some alpha-male wannabe with big meaty paws envelops my entire hand, thumb and all, when he shakes it, as if to immediately make me the b!tch. ok, pal, if you really need that to boast your tiny self-esteem, go ahead. a real man doesnt need to emasculate others”

“5) people on the left lane driving slower then the speed limit

Gemini
9:48:02 PM
8/10/05

I knew Gem would understand...”

“heehee...whatcha mean bit?? you can add to it...and talking on the cell while driving 50 on the left lane. that makes my second personality come out and I am in road rage mode in no time.

oh...I have never seen anyone with cell phones in public restroomes. well...besides me...talking to pennsy...but I hang up as soon as my voice started to echo...

am guilty of the overflowing trash can most of the time.

CB...lol...you do know that I am female right?? And I am not talking about those handshakes that break your damn fingers...but I hate sweaty, weak handshakes. One of my sisters has a weak handshake...it's bad.”

“my pet peeves on just about every tree she walks by”

“1). weak handshakes
3) people I don't know, who call me honey

1. I have a firm handshake, but tend to have a gentle one with women. I should maybe rethink that. It's not one of those Frank from Father of the Bride shakes tho.

3. You're SOL on this one since you live in the South. I don't use any of those terms though.”