Got Pet Peeves?
Will posting your pet peeves discharge the discomfort they cause, in a similar way that doing psycho-therapy about your childhood can help to release its hold on you? Here is my list to test the theory:
~ At the car wash when they put down your radio antennae and then don’t put it back up and you go for weeks with static in your radio until you realize it
~ People who style their hair to make it look like a mess
~ When a cop pulls me over to check if I have a seatbelt on – What else will they decide is for my own good and then charge me if I don’t do it?
~When the “This Page Cannot Be Displayed” is displayed on my computer screen.
~ When ordering a cup of tea and the server puts the unopened teabag on the side of the cup and you have to rush to open it and put it in the cup and by then it won’t brew and you have a lousy cup of tea. Would coffee drinkers put up with cold tasteless coffee, routinely?
~ Speed bumps, reality TV, and TV commercials that use classic songs from the 60s to advertise their products
That felt pretty good. Feel free to get a few pet peeves off your own chest…
Post Note: I’ve been reviewed. Floyd County in View arts writer, Jim Locke, recently posted a review of Billy Collins and local poets who have appeared in the Museletter, the Floyd publication that I co-edit. Check it out.
June 24th, 2005 10:16 am
When the guy with the supposed certificate and education in your field spends his days asking you the self trained code monkey how to do the basic parts of his job.
People who don’t signal…
People who signal the ineternal but never coming left or right lane merge…
People who flick cigaret butts…
Smiley glad hands with hiden agendas…
Being told I need to commute to my internet based job just to warm a seat cushion.. ack…
cheers
P.
P.s. via micheles today n all that…
June 24th, 2005 10:20 am
Michele sent me, but I visit often.
Number one pet peeve is when people I don’t know, call me at work, and say: ‘his is so-and-so, how are you today?’ Why do people say that? What’s wrong with just saying: ‘hello, is so-and-so available?’
June 24th, 2005 2:39 pm
I was about to post pet peeves, so I’ll start here:
People who write/type “to” when they mean “too”.
People who type “your” when they mean “you’re”.
People who signal, and then forget to turn it off.
Brides who ask for pricing when you don’t even know the style and type of flowers they want!
June 24th, 2005 7:50 pm
I don’t think I have these but I think your list is a good one. I like the idea of airing out what annoys you. Hope it works. Good idea for a post.
June 24th, 2005 8:09 pm
I have a few pet peeves but I gotta say people who are always late really bugs me. Or when you tell a story and that one person always has a story to top it.
Here via Michele!
June 24th, 2005 11:57 pm
Just a note of explaination about the teabag thing. It is a health code violation in most if not all states for an employee to have hand contact with your food. The law includes tea bags, which is why most restaurants have the policy of serving the tea bag on the side. Not that it can’t be done on request. And a good server prewarms your mug so your water will stay hot and your tea will brews strong.
June 25th, 2005 9:12 am
I figured that was the reason, but all they have to touch the paper string. I guess we’re more uptight in the U.S. because they don’t tend to leave the teabag unopened in Europe. The directions say “pour boiling water over the tea bag” (not hot water but with boiling water) for a reason. Black tea doesn’t brew right otherwise and then tastes flat. A tea drinker knows the difference. One of my sisters, who is a waitress, says it’s also a time factor. I do ask for the tea bag to be put in the cup and some waitresses look at me like I’m a weirdo (demanding customer).
June 25th, 2005 10:25 am
Yes and then if you do put it in you get the people who get mad that you did. We all have our pet peeves and many of them come out at meal time.
I can’t stand it when people put salt on their food before tasting it.
June 25th, 2005 4:24 pm
My pet peeves: OK, well, SOME of my pet peeves:
*Parents who yell at their kids and then expect their kids to behave better then they are.
*Discrimination in any way, shape, or form.
*Literature that makes you work to understand it. Nuanced work is one thing. But tell me what you mean! If I want to have to solve an equation, I’ll do math.
*People who won’t play scrabble with me.
June 26th, 2005 5:57 am
Came here via Fred First a while back and have been lurking ever since.
I don’t understand people that have a garage to park their car/cars in but can’t because the garage is filled with JUNK they can’t bring themselves to part with. Today, cars are so high-priced they are worth more than all the JUNK would ever be.
Drivers right in front of me that lay back a few car lengths from the car in front of them UNTIL the light is about to change and then, pour on the gas to make it through on caution, leaving me to wait through the light.
The price of gasoline can drop a few cents between fill-ups, but just before I need to fill mine up, the price jumps ten cents.
June 26th, 2005 10:07 pm
Oh, those pet peeves… here are some of mine:
*People who don’t pick up after their dogs.
*Burnt coffee at those turnpike service plazas.
*People who, when they learn I am from Seattle, say, “Oh, it rains there a lot, doesn’t it?”
*Folks who won’t give up their seats on trains or buses for pregnant women or the elderly.
*Guys who say, “I’ll call you,” and then never do. (I’ve been off the dating market for five years and just knowing there are guys out there who do this STILL drives me nuts!)