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RedFraggle
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 Posted - March 27 2008 : 10:33:47 AM
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Hello, Mohicanland!
There hasn't been much happening on the boards lately, so just for fun I thought I'd ask a question that might generate some entertaining answers. I'm wondering: what are people's pet peeves? Is there anything that really annoys you, even for no good reason? Here's a chance to rant about it and maybe find other people who are just as annoyed as you about the same thing.
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 11:11:46 AM
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Okay Red, I will be the first to rant.  One of my pet peeves is when people will not return the grocery carts to the cart return. Some people will even be parked right next to the cart return and still not have enough gumption to walk a few steps to put it where is should be. Okay, I got that out and now it makes me feel better. 
Don't even get me going on people that don't have manners to chew their food with their mouth closed. I do not want to see someone's chewed up food and have it spit on me if they decide to talk.
I have plenty more but I want to see some of the other's pet peeves. I really have way too many. Ask my hubby. 
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 1:35:42 PM
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Even after a property survey, neighbors that have been told for the last seven years that their fence is encroaching 900 square feet on our propery and they won't move it even though they know  . Another is that we can't file a complaint ourselves or get any help from anyone, oh no - we are told, we have to hire a lawyer  which we can't afford....  
I am guilty of the cart thing sometimes  . I have 3 small children and if they are with me and if the cart stand is set all the way down at the end of the row, I'm not about to leave the kids to put it away. Overall though, I always put them away. |
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Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
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Christina
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 3:16:10 PM
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Parents that refuse to be parents to their children and teach them how to behave properly in public places or in houses of worship. I can't count the times since I have started working for our local Catholic diocese that I have attended worship services and seen kids allowed to run and up and down aisles (DURING the Mass, including one being given by a cardinal), ride the kneelers like horses, hit brothers and sisters, scream, carry on, etc. We won't even go into the woman who let a two year old scream during an opera matinee we went to see last year. I have really no problem with kids at all. I do however have problems with people who refuse to even try to discipline kids and not realize how certain actions might affect the other people around them.
Also people who can't seem to remember to turn cell phones and Blackberries off. I just came from a funeral where some lady's phone played a cartoon ring tone three times during the service. AAGGGGH. |
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Hawkeye_Joe
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 6:14:18 PM
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| caitlin, Start taking the fence down.... when they call the cops you can show the cops the survey. If they take you to court then you can represent yourself and present the property survey to the judge. Let them burden themselves with the legal expenses of suing you over it.... |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
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caitlin
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 7:33:57 PM
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Originally posted by Hawkeye_Joe
caitlin, Start taking the fence down.... when they call the cops you can show the cops the survey. If they take you to court then you can represent yourself and present the property survey to the judge. Let them burden themselves with the legal expenses of suing you over it....
We thought of that, but we now have restraining orders...(long story) - the lady is nuts. Makes me sick because we are paying property taxes on land we can't step on!
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Jack McCall: "Should we shake hands or something, relieve the atmosphere. I mean how stupid do you think I am?"
Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 7:56:02 PM
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I am guilty of the cart thing sometimes . I have 3 small children and if they are with me and if the cart stand is set all the way down at the end of the row, I'm not about to leave the kids to put it away. Overall though, I always put them away.
Caitlin,
You aren't supposed to admit to it.  I can actually see your point, but when someone is right next to it, and they still don't put it away, it just gets to me. One time, someone actually pushed the cart right behind our car. I guess that they have seen me put my cart away, so they figured I would put theirs away too.
Okay, another pet peeve is seeing someone pull into a handicap parking place and just about sprint into the store. Those parking spaces are meant for people that are actually handicapped, not all of the family of the person that is handicapped.
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blackfootblood
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 8:07:55 PM
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Oh Pet Peeves, good topic!! Well, let's see, I'm with ya on the cart thing. Also the handicap parking thing. But don't you notice that the people that do park in the handicap spots with the tag are always driving some huge 4X4 quad cap pickup that has a lift kit on it. Now how is that helping their handicap? Guess they just have a mental one?! Oh also, something that gets me going is when your waiting in line at the store and the person behind you is dang near crawling up your back and breathing down your neck. I hate that!! Back off! It ain't going to get your any closer to check out! And the last one is young punk kids that don't have an ounce of respect for anyone but themselves. It really upsets me to see that this young generation is so stuck on themselves. They are the future of our country, makes you kinda scared to think of the future. (Now I'm not talking about all young people, don't want to offend anyone.) But that's it, for now. My coffee session is done!  |
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Hawkeye_Joe
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Posted - March 27 2008 : 11:42:04 PM
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| Since I don't know the whole situation I really can't comment much more. I would go to the city or county council meetings and see if they would listen to your complaint. If you are paying taxes on that piece of property, it belongs to you and they don't have a leg to stand on...You could also have your land reassesed and have the fence people start paying the taxes on the fenced off property. |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
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Theresa
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Posted - March 28 2008 : 07:32:13 AM
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| HAVING MORE ITEMS IN YOUR CART THAN ALLOWED IN THE EXPRESS AISLE...ARGH!!!! THEN...they don't park their cart in the cart coral...ARGH!!! |
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RedFraggle
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Posted - March 28 2008 : 07:42:58 AM
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Shopping carts, terrible children, and obnoxious people in grocery store lines? I'm right there with all of you. I get SO annoyed at those things! When I worked retail a few summers back (hopefully something I'll never have to do again) there was this customer who let her child throw a full five-minute screaming fit--the lying on the floor, legs and arms flailing, shouting kind--while standing over the kid cooing, "Let it all out, honey. Just let it all out." She actually waited till the kid had finished, then left the store. I was about to "let it all out" myself by hitting her upside the head with a dressing room chair, ala Jerry Springer. Arrrrrrgh!
Another pet peeve of mine? Personalized license plates. Yep. Hate them. Especially when they make no sense and I waste 10 minutes trying to figure out what they mean. Or when plates on a luxury car say something like "BGBUCK$." Thanks, rich person, I couldn't have figured that out on my own from your fully loaded, Italian leather seated, Mercedes SUV that still has the price sheet on the window. (Which is something else that bothers me to no end!)
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Christina
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Posted - March 28 2008 : 10:54:20 AM
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Here's just one more I need to add...people who smack gum, unwrap candy, crack their knuckles and blow their nose loudly during cultural events. We go to see quite a few symphony concerts, plays, etc. around here and invariably I end up next to one of these people, who especially always seem to carry on their loud and annoying activities during the quieter moments of a concerto, a moving violin solo or during some moving monologue or break in the action of a musical. A couple years ago there was a guy behind me doing the nose-blowing thing HONK HONK HONK every few beats during a gorgeous flute solo. RedFraggle, I am so with you. Last week when one of the knuckle crackers started up during "Sweeney Todd" I was wondering if there were ways to put him out of our misery with the arm of one of the theater chairs.
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Grenouille
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Posted - March 28 2008 : 8:35:43 PM
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CELL PHONES...people talking on them in the stall next to me in the bathroom (I make sure I flush multiple times so as to let the party they are talking to knows they're sitting on the pot), yapping away on them in the grocery store, talking on them while driving, in the movie theater, even talking on them while having sex...god's curse on man, next to Aids...
White kids who think they are black and talk, dress and act that way using the ebonics lingo -- acting like they're gangstas...
People who don't use their turn signals...
People who come to almost a complete stop before they turn...
People who ride their car brakes the whole way down a hill...
People who hand me eating utensils who put their fingers on the spoon, fork, or knife part and not on the handles...
Disingenuous people...
People who are blatant suck-ups...
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Hawkeye_Joe
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Posted - March 29 2008 : 10:19:00 AM
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People who have to pull into the fast lane on the Hwy and slow down to 10 miles under the speed limit to talk on their cell phone...
"People who come to almost a complete stop before they turn..."
You hate them too?? SO I'm not alone...oh wait.. was that sucking up?? |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
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caitlin
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Posted - March 29 2008 : 2:13:49 PM
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That would also be the people who pull onto the highway and don't get up to highway speed!
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Jack McCall: "Should we shake hands or something, relieve the atmosphere. I mean how stupid do you think I am?"
Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
"A nation with no regard to it's past will have little future worth remembering."
A.Lincoln
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things"
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blackfootblood
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Posted - March 29 2008 : 7:24:25 PM
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| ........or the people who think they are in the movie "Fast and the Furious" swerving and weaving thru traffic 80 mph cutting people off. I would just love to slam my brakes on in front of those folks! |
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Christina
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Posted - March 29 2008 : 9:28:21 PM
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| Let me add my extreme contempt for tailgaters, especially people who tailgate even when you are doing the speed limit or above! South Carolina I swear is the only state where you can be in the SLOW lane doing 79 or 80 and there is still somebody tailgating you! |
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Hawkeye_Joe
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 10:15:56 AM
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| Weekend Bicyclists........"Share the Road"!!.. they don't share anything.. they get on two lane hwys and take the whole road at 7 MPH and you can't get around them. One day there will be a mass accident when someone plows through a gaggle of 20 that are just around the curve. |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
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richfed
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 10:52:32 AM
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| Cell phones ... absolutely. Or, rather people who use them obsessively!!! I mean, I have folks walk right up to me at my window at the Post Office --- long line behind them, by the way - and just keep on yakking on their damn phone. I HATE THAT! |
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 11:36:57 AM
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Any guy in a speedo!!! 
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Kay |
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caitlin
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 2:46:20 PM
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Originally posted by richfed
Cell phones ... absolutely. Or, rather people who use them obsessively!!! I mean, I have folks walk right up to me at my window at the Post Office --- long line behind them, by the way - and just keep on yakking on their damn phone. I HATE THAT!
 Obsessive texting... I just can't figure out why it's easier than just talking on the phone. Then there are the idiots who do it while driving ! They passed a law on it here in AZ, thank goodness,but only sadly after someone was killed by some teenager driving and texting. |
Jack McCall: "Should we shake hands or something, relieve the atmosphere. I mean how stupid do you think I am?"
Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
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"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things"
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 4:35:07 PM
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Oh yeah, the "disabled" parking by the non-disabled ... and, yes, I have noticed that so darned many vehicles with blue disabled placards are big honking 4x4 pickups or suv's. I just don't get it.
Trying to keep this post short, I'll only add a couple of other items: professional team sports owners who want a new stadium in their city but want the city to pay for it! Finally, since I'm from California...Al Davis! |
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Grown-ups who don't pick up after themselves. I'm thinking of the last two offices I've worked in -- things like paper towels left on the floor, coffee or sugar spilled next to the coffee maker, etc. I think some of the employees confuse "cleaning crew" with "maids."
A thought on SUVs bearing handicapped placards: Although my father-in-law is not disabled, he has had a double knee replacement, and it's easier for him to get into a high vehicle than a low one. Maybe it's that way for others who have difficulty moving around . . . don't know. |
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Dances with Beagles
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Posted - March 30 2008 : 9:44:45 PM
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oooooh.......good topic!
My pet peeve:
People driving while using their cell phones (talking or texting). Even with the hands-free devices, you can tell who they are...
NJ just passed a law last month making driving with a cell phone a primary offense with a $100 fine. Maybe this will cure our huge budget deficit!
Get your "Drive Now, Talk Later" bumper sticker from Car Talk....
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/Drive-Now/bumper-sticker.html
(I liked the old "Hang up and Drive" bumper sticker, but it's not available).
I would also agree with those who are peeved at people who are constantly on their cell phones, or jump to answer every call as if every call is a life-or-death matter.
And, I don't think any reports of cell phones possibly being linked to brain cancer would change their behaviors!
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Seamus
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 03:28:45 AM
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| People wearing those big, blue, Cootie-looking things in their ear everywhere, as if it makes them think they look important or something. I think it's an affected thing and a show-off, like, "look at me. Ain't I cool?" Re: incessant yakking on a cell phone, there's a gal who comes into the Dunkin' Donuts every morning whilst I am there having my morning Earl Gray and she is blabbing the whole time--from when she gets out of her car, to standing in line, to ordering and getting her stuff, paying and out the door without shutting up once. The regulars, read that "Club Geezer", which meets there daily to solve the world's problems gets the biggest kick out of her. Her nom de Geezer is "Blabs".....sorry, most of the comments are not acceptable here. She really thinks she IS something!! Someday I am going to stand in line behind her and carry on my own conversation with no one, aloud, and maybe even with her, interjecting whatever fits in her converstaion, no matter what she is saying to her little friend in the big blue cootie. That oughta set 'er off! In fact, several of us are cosidering surrounding her in the several lines and all of us talking independently about nothing in particular. One guy, a mechanic, says he will narrate a rotor replacement on a wheel for content, step by step, like he is advising a novice...his wife. I cannot wait! |
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 05:55:49 AM
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A thought on SUVs bearing handicapped placards: Although my father-in-law is not disabled, he has had a double knee replacement, and it's easier for him to get into a high vehicle than a low one. Maybe it's that way for others who have difficulty moving around . . . don't know.
BW,
I think that you are right about this because my dad has had a double knee replacement too and he drives his truck alot more than his car. I have never asked him about it, but if I did, I bet that he would say that it is easier for him to get in and out of his truck, so the same would also be true about an SUV.
Okay, now it's time for another pet peeve, and before y'all think that I complain all the time, I really don't, except to my very patient hubby. .... and now to y'all.
Women that don't wash their hands after using the restroom. This really gets to me because I have to touch the same door handles that they just touched with dirty hands. Nowadays I just open the doors with a paper towel if I can, but I can't always do that because some places just have those stupid hand dryers, another pet peeve of mine!!!
Love,
Kay |
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