Pet Peeves
 

Haven't done one of these in awhile, so while I am being annoyed here, I thought I would spread the joy!

Why is it that some people think that if you turn the thermostat down that the air conditioning will work better? This drives me crazy at work. They ask me to kick it down and I say "it is already blowing - it won't blow colder just because the degree is set colder".

Yesterday, we had it set on 68 and it never got below 75 because the A/C doesn't work well here. I cannot fix that. I cannot make it cooler by setting it lower. It just doesn't work that way! We have been having this conversation for about 8 years since we moved into this building.

I don't think it is that complicated. You set a temperature on the thermostat and the a/c blows until it reaches that temp. It can't make the unit blow colder. Is it actually possible that they don't comprehend this? :eek:

OK, I feel better. How about other people's pet peeves???

tailgaters..... especially when there are cars infront of me... Duh I cant go anywhere nor can the tailgater:Bang-Head:

Definitely for me, the biggest is people who interrupt you while you're talking.

People who insist on talking on their cell phone while being in the checkout line at the grocery store. Sometimes they don't even acknowledge the cashier (which is really rude) and then wait till everything is finished to begin fishing for their debit card - or worse....their checkbook!

I have another one........:o.

People who get pets and then don't/won't take care of them. That is my biggest "pet" peeve!

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If someone tailgates me, it only makes me want to drive even slower...and to match speeds with the slow driver in the next lane. I think I made a tailgater's head explode once doing that.

I also hate people who interrupt me. When I used to work in an inbound telemarketing company (people called me to buy the crap that's sold on tv) they would constantly interrupt me...usually when I was trying to answer their questions. I'd be giving them an answer to their question, and they'd start to yell at me about why I wasnt answering their questions fast enough...Because they were screaming at me, and I wasnt allowed to interrupt THEM! I had to wait for them to shut the heck up.

Another pet peeve is children wearing those Wheelie shoes. I've been run into so many times in WalMart and other stores that I pretty much have given up being civil to the parents of these kids. The kids skate into me, and I get kvetched at for being in the way? I'm not the one rolling down the aisles with wheels in my shoes.

oh yeah, I was just reminded of this one...

People who play their car stereos so loud that it shakes my house and I can hear some of the words of the songs clearly...in my basement.

people who cut in front of you when you're driving or weave in and out of traffic

People who are driving so slowly as to be dangerous

kids who intentionally step off the sidewalk and walk (make that appear to crawl) across the street defying you to move your car

waiters/waitresses who remove your plate before you're done eating without asking first (I'm tempted to STAB THEM WITH MY FORK!!)

food that spoils (like veggies) within a day or two of getting it home from the store

kids that won't take no for an answer until you have to really yell at them

cell phones that won't ring! LOL!!

Frank I agree with you. Where do tailgaters think I am going to go when I am behind a long line of cars in a traffic jam? There are times when I feel like stopping and getting out and asking the person behind me that very question.

Tee hee!

News reporters who ask dumb questions - perfect example - reporter asking homeowner who is watching their home burn to the ground: "how do you feel right now?" (my response: "I feel like punching your lights out for asking such an insensitive, moronic question. How do you think I feel?") Homeowner's response last night to reporter: "totally numb."

We had a huge wild fire rip through Boise last night. 10 homes totally destroyed, another 20 unlivable. One life lost, 17 police officers hospitalized due to smoke inhalation while evacuating residents, and 1 firefighter hospitalized for injuries sustained during the fire. It looks like a war zone.

Reporters were running around interviewing the evacuated residents asking stupid questions. That's always been my pet peeve. I was impressed with a lot of the residents who were refusing to talk to the reporters. This was all live feed last night.

When you have to turn up the sound on your TV and yet, still have to strain your ears, to hear the show.............and............then.........a commercial comes on and you are claws up, on the ceiling. Grrrrrrrrrrr.:mad:

yeah, stupid reporters asking stupid and redundant questions.

I remember watching news briefings during the First Gulf War. General Schwarzkopf was answering questions, and there was almost always several reporters who would ask a question that was either stupid, or a re-phrasing of a question that was asked and answered earlier in the briefing. You could just see General Schwarzkopf thinking "duh...you moron, you've already asked that question 3 times in three different ways. Do you think the answer will change in 5 minutes???" Schwarzkopf had to have a really good grasp on his patience.

My peeve of the day!

I hate that, too. I asked my son once what the police do when reporters get in the way. He just looked at me and said "you really don't want to know!".

Satisfied me! :D

parents who turn their children lose upon the world. wal mart, Kmart, grocery stores, video stores, or just out in public. As soon as they get out of the car, the parents turn a blind eye, a deaf ear, and act like its YOU that has the problem when their child runs you over to get to the video game demo section in wal mart.

people who push me! not physically touch me, but get up behind me to rush me. TRUST ME, I am moving as fast as I can. I dont like the fact that you are now standing close enough to know what size my underwear is. If I could move any faster, I would! or being bumped in the check out line by anothers cart. bump "Oh, Im sorry" bump "oh dear, Im sorry"

QFT (quoted for truth).

I had a young boy who's mother was too busy in her own world letting the kid run around run into my stationary shopping card, and of course he hurt himself.

Well mom comes over to young boy who's almost in tears (it looked like it must have hurt) and gives me the evil eye. UH? Not my fault you're so engrossed with the baking section that your kid is unattended running around like a tumbleweed. :mad:

amen Sally those dang commercials at night, omg
I had heard a few years back that the FCC was going to ban them being able to adjust the volume of commercials, they were only going to be able to broadcast the commercials as loud as the show they were being aired on... so much for that

FG does the new phone ring? hope so

Drivers who don't know that they can speed up when their cruise is on; especially the ones who think they have some magical right to occupy the left lane without yielding to traffic for scores of miles!

People who think that they are above the law.

Being asked what I'm doing when I'm obviously reading a book!

People calling me just to kill time during a commute, then, upon their arrival, abruptly cut the call in the middle of a conversation.

When a person says "yah. yah. yah. yah." really fast throughout my sentence (if you already know, don't ask me).

I realize some folks would have a problem, but the ones I am talking about are the ones that continually leave their grocery carts in the middle of parking spots so that you have to get out and move it a foot or two into the cart holding spaces so that you can park. Plumb laziness!

All of the above, so far.

Add people who don't clean up after their pooches, and/or let them do their business on the neighbor's lawn. If I wanted dog poop, I'd go buy some.

People who don't flush!! (disgusting)

People who cough or sneeze and don't cover their mouths.

People who leave the toilet paper roll empty!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

telemarketers, polsters, and other telephone time wasters. They usually call just as I am getting ready to do my shot, or recovering from it. NO! I dont want to talk about YOUR candidate while I jab a sharp object into my tummy.

Women who dress their 5 year olds like sluts! We went out to dinner last night, and I swear to God, this 5 year old had glittered sweat short on that said JUICY across her back side. when she spun around she had a barely on ripped tank top and glitter in her hair! She was running around the restaurant like a wild chicken, and when she got closer, I swear, those looked like real diamonds in her ears, and a dooney and burke purse! she was chattering on a pretend cell phone, and just making a monkey of herself.


school car washes! what is wrong with parents that they will let their 14 or 15 year old stand in a bikini on the side of the road covered in suds, begging cars to pull in and get washed? :eek: I have always thought that was just wrong!

I have a 9 year old daughter and its really hard to find appropriate young
girl clothing:mad: It really burns my bottom:mad: Alot of stores I completely
refuse to enter because its all hootchie mama clothing.

I also hate the sound of people eating raw celery or carrots......or people
who chew gum with their mouth open. I just wanna smack em under
their jaw and shut it for them. the fear of paying for their dental bills
is the only thing that stops me:o.

Another shopping cart pet peeve is the fact that at many stores, there is NO cart return even remotely close to the handicapped parking. Sam's Club does a good job with this, they have their cart returns right next to HC parking, but Walmart (sister store) doesn't.:confused:

If we need closer parking don't they think we need a closer location to return our carts? I feel like these parking lot designers are mocking us:

"Here's your nice close parking spot so that you don't have to drag your stupid legs all the way to the back 40 of the parking lot, but unfortunately, if you want to return your cart, you'll have to hoof it another length of a football field!":eek:

Oh, I forgot to follow up on the one about not putting up new TP. It drives me even more crazy when someone gets out a new roll and won't take the extra step to actually put it on the holder. I mean, how much energy does it take to do that? It's not a complicated maneuver, but to finish off the roll, leave the empty tube in place on the holder and just plunk the new roll on the back of the commode is lazy!!

Oh I just remembered. Shopping carts!

What is wrong with Target???!!

You go into the stores, and all you see is the first row of all baby carriage shopping carts. The ones that toddlers ride on, or the ones with the baby seat on it. GRRR.... I am stumbling and tripping on myself, and just want a cart to lean on. I have to climb around TWO full rows of baby carts, to get to the adult regular shopping carts. If you need a power chair, you have to go over to the cashiers and climb in BEHIND the express lane cashier to get to one.


Also why did they change the speed on the power chairs in stores? I used to be able to go get my things done, now I travel at a snails pace when I use them, and it barely creeps along. Did they do that to stop teenagers from riding them? LETS GO!

why dont they put the cart corrals near the handicap parking spots

Newspaper articles with errors in grammar and spelling!!! I should have been an editor.

Neighbors who let their dogs poo on my lawn...:mad:

LOL, I find this a lot with the online news too. I'm sitting there going - spell checker didn't help you with that one, did it? :D

A couple of other pet peeves of mine:

If you can't drive and talk on the phone, then don't do it. I can't tell you how many times I've almost been hit by people who were on their cells.

People who make sure you can't put your grocheries on the belt behind them in line. I had a lady the other day with only two items in front of me who refused to move from her place next to the belt or to offer to get me one of those dividers so I could at least start getting my stuff on there.

People who walk in the middle of a road without the courtesy to at least move to one side when a car is coming down it.

People who forget that the road rules, like stop signs, apply to them when they are on a bicycle.

Good one! . . . Or, if they walk across diagonally, stretched over about a block. :p

People who move to a new country and don't "do as the Roman's do" once they get there.

When someone asks a question, doesn't really listen to the answer, then asks the same thing later . . . or . . . they keep asking the same question over and over again, but they don't try any of the suggestions to better their situation. :mad:

People who wave their hand in their face when they walk through smoke OUTSIDE!!

Drivers who drive too slow in the passing lane. Pass, and MOVE OVER!!

Hypocrates. :rolleyes:

Cherie

AMEN sister!!!

People, in general. ;)

People who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom...
People who leave their kids run around at will in a restaurant, hopping on seats, bothering patrons, etc.
People who treat the ground like their garbage can...and ashtray...

Peevish people.

pick it up and go put it on their lawn. it doesn't take very long before they figure out that people don't like their dog pooping on your lawn. it does work!

:D

I don't like when someone asks me how I am doing and then walk away never intending to find out in the first place. Just say HI for crying out loud.

OOOHHH!!! I HATE those wheelie shoes!! They are the worst inventions for kids ever!! I don't care how sweet the kid is, they put on those shoes and they turn into little jerks! Demons! I literally fantasize about sticking my cane out in front of a kid skating around like hot stuff in those shoes and causing him a HUGE embarrassing wipe out!:D

shall we even venture into the realms of customer service and or lack thereof

perhaps its my own assumptions that leave me feeling like these companies hired folks like this on purpose. I was always under the assumption that speaking clearly, being articulate, polite and able to read customers last names or the decency to apologize if you stumble on a pronunciation, was what we looked for when we hire customer service reps. silly me :Bang-Head:

Oh Frank . . . your posting reminded me of another one. :D

Why don't retailers teach their staff to count back change properly any more? So many times they just hand you the receipt, stacked with the bills, and on top of that a pile of change.

This is even more of a problem here, because we use one and two dollar coins, so we get back a ton of change. Why not place the change into the person's hand, say "$5.00", then hand over the $5.00 bill and say "that makes $10.00".

Retailers rely heavily on the till to calculate the change now, then just throw it at you in a heap!! :cool:

Cherie

oh you are so right Cherie and god forbid you give them an extra penny to make it easier thats all it takes to confused the mathematical genius of the future

and if they don't start handing me the change first instead of stuffing bills in my hand then expect me to hang on to the change and my cane at same time, i am gonna have a cow somewhere real soon some one is gonna go home with a mark left on them from my cane or the change:yikes: