posted on November 12, 2000 03:33:02 PM new
To help prevent the Round Table from being renamed the Oval Office, I think it's time for a thread about pet peeves. What are some of the things that drive you crazy?
Here are some of mine:
1) The layout of IKEA. They have one narrow walkway snaking around the entire store so you have to go through each and every section to get to what you want. On the weekends when it's crowded, everyone is walking so slowly with their kids and their carts, sometimes stopping right in the middle of the aisles. Apparently everything in IKEA is absolutely fascinating to these people who stroll through the store clogging up that one narrow walkway.
2) Electronic business cards which people attach to all of their emails. I've never been able to open one, and they clog up my attachments folder and I'm constantly having to delete them.
3) Those stupid gyrating Santa Clauses which have populated the Christmas aisles in every store I go into this time of year during the past couple of Christmas seasons. Last week I was horrified to see that they're back!
posted on November 12, 2000 03:45:01 PM new
Ok, I'll go.
1. Singing Seafood, Bass, Lobsters, Trout, you name it. If it is mounted on "look a like" wood, is made out of rubber, and sings, ugh!
2. Shoppers in grocery stores who stand in line for 10 minutes, then wait until their purchases are all bagged up to realize that yes, they do need to find not only their checkbook but also a pen, and actually fill out the check and sign it. Oh yes, and then they remember the .50 cents off coupon on the shake-n-bake.
3. Chronically late people. Those who leave their house at the exact time they should be arriving at their destination. These people always sit in front of me at the theater, or in the movies. They will also be chronic "hard candy" eaters. The kind wrapped in krinkly cellophane that takes 5 minutes to open.
4. Dolls head with kleenex coming out of them. Scary, enough said.
posted on November 12, 2000 03:55:18 PM new
When I hold a door open for someone, like I was taught to do, I get annoyed when they put their nose up in the air and sail through as if I were their personal doorman. Never a smile or a nod.
I continue to do the right thing but I am tempted sometimes to make a smart remark. But I don't.
posted on November 12, 2000 03:58:10 PM new
People who've never used the Round Table forum before showing up with politically-inspired names and subjecting us to their lamer rants. Go find a cocktail party to bore or maybe a call-in radio show.
(I wouldn't have said anything, but you asked ...)
posted on November 12, 2000 04:16:20 PM new
My Pet peeve is wrong numbers. If you can't dial a phone properly maybe you should not be allowed to use one. My personal number (I have 3 phone lines) is similar to a Pharmacy, a Plumber and a Nursing Home. It is getting to the point that I answer the phone "This is not XXXX Pharmacy, it is not XXXXX Plumbing and it is not XXXXX Nursing Home".
Then what really yanks my chain is when the caller asks either "What number is this?" or "Who are you?" About then I start shouting about YOU called me, WHO are you and what the he77 do you want?
Barry (operator, can you trace this call and tell me where I am?) Barris
posted on November 12, 2000 04:25:51 PM new
telemarketers. gggrrrrrrr! No, I don't want to change my phone service, no, I don't want three days in a motel, no, I don't want a condo...
posted on November 12, 2000 05:29:34 PM new
1) Telemarketers calling before 11 am on a weekend and waking up me and my family
2) Popups, especially the kind that disable your "Back" button
3) Software with built-in features (like automatic numbering, automatic anything else, and no detailed coding help) that make it harder for me to do what I want
4) Judgmental people
5) Dishonest people
6) Any sort of TV program about health or weight loss (guaranteed to contradict whatever was showing last month, and present information so hysterically that I wonder how I stayed alive this long)
7) Folks who talk incessantly about politics or current events, especially those who get all their information from the TV news or newspapers
________
I never had one, and I didn't want one, and I don't, so now I do...
posted on November 12, 2000 05:36:17 PM new
1.)When you call a company and the person answering the phone does not identify themselves.
2). When a person calls your company and then proceeds to place an order that for an item that does not apply to your company. A lady has done this twice at my company. Two times I have explained to her that we are not XYZ Medical Supply. I so desperately want to ask her were you not paying attention to the company name I that I said when I answered the phone.
3). Screaming children in the grocery store. I swear I am a magnet for these kids. The blood curdling scream that travels all the way up your spine.
posted on November 12, 2000 10:34:14 PM new
People who talk in movie or play theatres--and why on earth do they *always* sit next to me?!?
People who constantly interrupt you--if they would just shut up they would find out what they need to know so much quicker. And why do these people always seem to find jobs at fast food restaurants?
Televangelists
Smokers who ask if you mind if they light up and then get ticked off if you say yes.
Children who are not taught any manners or how to behave because "he/she is only 3...4...5....10..." --the parents seemingly under the impression that the little dears will magically become perfectly behaved at some unspecified age that their child hasn't reached yet...
posted on November 13, 2000 04:38:36 PM new
Barry(you are so right) Barris: Same thing happens to me all the time. I keep getting calls for a vet and a grocery store that's been out of business for over 2 years. My answering machine states "this is not a grocery store!" before the beep.
posted on November 13, 2000 06:42:49 PM new
Gum cracking (is this actually attractive to some people??)
Men (sorry, but women generally have different "body space" rules and don't do this very often) who sit on public transportation and s p r e a d t h e i r l e g s so I'm wedged into a 9" space by the window. You paid the same fare as me, Buddy. Stay in your own space.
People who mark up library books with notes and underscores. Ex-husband #1 (Mr. Morality himself) used to do it in INK. No, Mark, nobody else really cares to know what you think about the book.
People who stop in their tracks immediately upon alighting from an escalator, causing a pretty nasty traffic jam. Apparently they're so dumbfounded from the change from "moving" to "standing still" that they can't think what to do next.
Unlicensed carries of umbrellas, whether open (walk down the middle of the street putting out pedestrians' eyes) or closed (tucked under the arm with 3' sticking out behind them, or swinging wildly fore and aft, threatening to disembowel whoever's nearby). Never, never let your gun/Pointed be at anyone....
posted on November 13, 2000 06:53:24 PM new
Well...maybe this
Unlicensed carries of umbrellas, whether open (walk down the middle of the street putting out pedestrians' eyes) or closed (tucked under the arm with 3' sticking out behind them, or swinging wildly fore and aft, threatening to disembowel whoever's nearby).
is to prevent any form of this
Men who sit on public transportation and s p r e a d t h e i r l e g s so I'm wedged into a 9" space by the window.
Still laughing about the perplexed people getting off of the escalator.
posted on November 13, 2000 08:02:16 PM new
the one single thing out of all the things that make me insane is this:
People who act as if all the space in any given area is their space and other people don't exist. I see this constantly, everywhere I go. People meet someone they know in the grocery store and stop to talk, blocking the whole aisle UNTIL someone (me) politely asks them to move. People in cars who catch sight of someone they know walking down the street and stop in the middle of the block to chat, heedless of who's behind them. People walking down the street who walk 3 abreast across the sidewalk and basically FORCE me to walk in the path of oncoming cars because they will not give way. People who allow their children to lie down full length on the floor in the middle of the mall and act ticked off when you (politely!) ask them to keep their children off the ground (aren't they worried someone will step on them??? I am!) People just seem so oblivious, as if there is no one else in the world but them. I was always raised to consider the other person and their possible requirements especially when it comes to public spaces where we all have to share. But apparently a lot of people were never taught that. I am sure they wonder why I give them dirty looks!!
posted on November 13, 2000 09:59:06 PM new
Telemarketers who have their computer(?) call you, put YOU on hold, and make YOU wait for THEM ... as if their time is so much more valuable than yours!
Telemarketers who, after you've told them NO, say "May I ask why?"
Restaurant personnel who, after you've placed your order, ask if you want an apple pie with that. (If I'd wanted an apple pie, I would've ordered it to begin with!)
Drive-thru's in general. Neither you or the order-taker can hear what the other is saying! (Or, you get the reverse ... the speaker is so loud that all the cars behind you know that you ordered a Super Duper Extra Cheese Double Decker Mega Grease Burger!)
My husband picking his fingernails. He can't use a pair of nail clippers to quickly smooth out a rough nail. Nope! That's too easy. He has to PICK PICK PICK the rough edges until they're smooth. (arrggh!)
posted on November 13, 2000 10:41:13 PM new
I think it goes without saying that my #1 peeve now is the election!
#2 would have to be people who put on their turn signals AFTER the light has changed and I am already right behind them.
Also, getting back to the door one stated earlier, is there anyone left in this would (other than busybiddy that is!) who holds doors open? I am so tired of having it slammed in my face! Especially when I am pushing my nephew in his stroller! When I hold it open for people they react with shock and surprise - that should tell you something right there!
posted on November 14, 2000 07:28:31 AM new
Calling a public utility company; power, phone, gas, etc. and trying to communicate with someone who cannot speak english well enough to be understood.
posted on November 14, 2000 07:56:23 AM new
I decided to make a list of pet peeves. I'm surprised at how many things I came up with that irritate me. Maybe I'm just irritable.
There are a whole slew of things that tweek me when I'm driving. Turning left from the far right lane, tailgating, kids not in seatbelts, littering...I could go on and on.
I just love it when I go into a store and some clerk acts like I am greatly inconveniencing them by trying to actually (gasp) buy something. I also just delight in having a clerk look down their nose at me in my jeans. (I refuse to get dressed up to go shopping!) I've noticed that this goes on in the mid-level stores, not the truly higher end stores.
I've known a few people in my life that have to have everything that goes on in their lives be dramatic. It's just one manufactured crises after another. These people are really tiring.
I've also known people who do nothing but whine about life. No one has it as hard as they do, no one gets as sick as they do, they are sooo put upon...waaahhh....Just drives me nuts. Most of these people have nothing REALLY wrong, they just like to bemoan their fate.
I think my favorite is when I'm told how little Johnny was doing X when he was 2 when my kids aren't doing whatever X is yet. My stock answer is "I didn't realize that this was a competition. Guess I lost." I feel sorry for the kids who have parents who tie up all of their self worth in the kids performance. My kids are happy, well adjusted and secure. That's all I'm really after.
I already told you in another thread how double dipping gets me going.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:30:47 AM newPeople meet someone they know in the grocery store and stop to talk, blocking the whole aisle UNTIL someone (me) politely asks them to move.
Couldn't agree more- probably the biggest reason I would never trust myself to carry a gun.
posted on November 14, 2000 02:57:44 PM new
gee...let's see...
people who think the world is their "trash can"...
people who park on their LAWN...it seems to be the exception rather than the rule on my road...
dumpster divers...
people who think its OK to look in your living room window as they pass by simply because you've pulled the shade up...
people who publish email newsletters but don't seem to know what "spell-check" is...
people who love their music SO MUCH that they simply must have the WHOLE WORLD listen to it with them...
people who think a bike path was put there for their dog's POOP...
posted on November 14, 2000 07:26:07 PM new
I am cranky mainly at work, so here are a few things that peeve me as a secretary. Here is what I would REALLY like to say to some people. First of all, when I tell you the person you want is on another line and may I take a message, don't ask me how much longer that person is going to be on the phone! Just once I would like to respond "two minutes, three seconds" and see what the person would say. How in the heck would I know? Then I get the people who have called once and call back later and say they were gone for a while and did my boss try to call them back? Again, how would I know? I don't sit right next to my boss and ask him what he is doing as he is doing it. Don't have time!
I also don't have time to babysit your kids while you are in a meeting with my boss. I am not cold hearted, I realize things happen sometimes and it is unavoidable, but don't just keep bringing them every time for free babysitting. I have other things to do! Contrary to popular belief, I do not sit around all day crossing my legs, reading magazines, and filing my nails. Oh gee, you really got me started . . .
posted on November 14, 2000 08:34:33 PM new
People who think you want to know the exact year and time of an event that happened to them.....you know, the kind that go "in 1957 or was it 1956, or maybe it was when Uncle Elmer went to Chicago in 1958,,....."
By the time they figure out the year, the whole gist of the story is gone or is very boring.
And usually it's these same people that are what I call the "one-up" people. No matter what someone else relates, their operation-pregnancy-child-spouse-car-school-home is worse-better-sicker-smarter-cleaner than yours.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:47:38 PM new
People with cell phones who act like everyone around them should be thrilled to be a part of their private conversation.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:56:25 PM new
1)Going to Wal-mart and seeing more shopping carts in the parking lot,than cars.
2)Kids screaming in a store, or destroying everything in a store they touch.
3)People who drive 30 on a road with no passing,and the speed limit is 55 or more.I especially hate to see a tractor on the road!
4)When people look at my T-Shirts at the Flea-Market,sling them all over the table,then holler ain't that cute...
posted on November 16, 2000 03:47:48 PM new
Hello everybody! Mind if a "newbie" get's a few things off her chest?
Hmmm, let's see if I can narrow the list down...
*People who let their kids run wild in the store.
*18-wheelers that like to tailgate you on the highway - as if 70mph isn't fast enough.
*Kids playing in the street who don't move even though they see you coming.
*When the whole neighborhood insists on parking in the road because it would inconvenience them to park in their DRIVEWAYS.
*People who hold their babies in their lap in the car. Especially when they say "Well we were just going down the road" - like that makes a difference.
*Answering the phone, only to hear "Please hold for an important call". Yea, RIGHT!
*People confusing my phone number for a fax line - and then can't figure out why the fax isn't going through so they keep trying.
*People who try to push their religion on you.
And the list goes on... (Naaa, I'm not irritable!)
PS Hope I didn't bore you spazmodeus I'm not one of those, am I? Say it ain't so! (I don't WANT to go to the cocktail party!)
posted on November 16, 2000 07:54:34 PM new
Like MAH645 said: "1)Going to Wal-mart and seeing more shopping carts in the parking lot,than cars." Only I would change it to "more carts on the sales floor loaded with items to be put out." One of our stores keeps running out of carts, but you can find many of them around the store loaded down with new merchandise.
Cashiers just opening who take the person just arriving in line instead of the next 4 or 5 people who have waited for 5 minutes!!!!
[ edited by labrat4gmos on Nov 16, 2000 07:56 PM ]
I'm not one of those, am I? Say it ain't so! (I don't WANT to go to the cocktail party!)