pet peeves and irritations

[ultramarineblue]

Ok, so there are things that just irritate you. They don't really piss you off, most of the time. What are they?

One thing that irritates me is people putting lol in texts or posts when it really isn't appropriate. Perhaps uhhhh would be better because it is just filling in and saying I don't have anything else to say but I want the text/post/email/whatever to be longer.

Another one of mine are people that forget to turn their blinkers off, several miles down the road. I also really like the ones that don't use their blinkers at all.

 

[CurlyKat]

Italian drivers irritate me. Most of the time I can deal with it, but if I'm frustrated already over anything at all, dear Lord I would like to strangle them all. The worst part is they walk like they drive, whereas I tend to follow normal traffic patterns while walking, too. Nothing against Italians, it just takes some getting used to and I'm a major rule follower.

Another pet peeve is when people pronounce the "T" in "often". It's silent. Don't say it.

 

[graceanne]

@#$%^%$#@ Verizon.

*goes back to sitting on hold with the morons*

 

[Cattypuss]

People who stand patiently in the cashpoint queue for ages, like the rest of us, and only think to start to try and find their purse in their handbag and then their card in their purse AFTER they arrive at the machine, thus holding us all up even more.

People who use text-abbreviations (e.g. "c u l8tr"). I include in this category people who only use them in texts.

People who indicate the wrong way on roundabouts.

 

[graceanne]

People who use text-abbreviations (e.g. "c u l8tr"). I include in this category people who only use them in texts.

I saw a tshirt once that said:

1f U c4n r34d th15, U n33d 2 g3t l4id.

ROFL

 

[the captians wench]

I saw a tshirt once that said:

1f U c4n r34d th15, U n33d 2 g3t l4id.

ROFL

I don't understand putting numbers in for letters. Okay, 2 for to/too I can understand, but the rest just baffle me. Is it really that hard to put the letter in?

One of my biggest pet peeves is at work, where I am majorly OCD anyway. But it just drives me completely mental when I see fries on the floor at breakfast time. We haven't surved fries for at least 4 hours, there really is no reason for fries to be on the floor at that point.

 

[graceanne]

I don't understand putting numbers in for letters. Okay, 2 for to/too I can understand, but the rest just baffle me. Is it really that hard to put the letter in?

Oh, I agree. You notice I don't do that. But it, the shirt, still made me laugh. Mostly cause I could read it. Too many teen siblings is my excuse, though.

 

[DVS]

Taking someone's word for something. I don't care if someone doesn't do what they say they will, but if they say they will do something by a certain date or time...and then they don't...they should at least have the gumption to fess up to it. If they don't, it reflects poorly on their character.

If someone says they will pay me tomorrow, when tomorrow comes, I expect them to either pay me or tell me why they couldn't. I don't want to be told to my face that you'll have the money you owe me on a certain date, only to find out you never intended to have it, only intending to duck me yet another day. This will piss me off more than if you had just said you aren't ever going to pay me.

You say you will come over and help me with something on Saturday...then when Saturday comes, you don't show up. Do you expect me to call you and remind you that you said you would help me? If you make a commitment to do something, doesn't keeping your word mean anything to you? I understand forgetting things, but after a few times, that pattern means you don't give a shit about my time.

Bottom line...if you can't keep your appointment, don't make it in the first place. If you can't do something, don't say you will. Don't join, if you never intend to participate. Sorry, saying "I forgot" only works once or twice. From then on, your credibility sucks.

 

[HisSexyPet]

People putting their flashing "hazzard" lights on when it starts raining. The rain is enough of a distraction and torrential downpours get me nervous enough, then to see 4 lanes ahead of flashing red lights...ahhhhhh. I hate driving in Miami in rain because they seem to all do this there where as only some do it in other parts of the state....weird.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

People who use text-abbreviations (e.g. "c u l8tr"). I include in this category people who only use them in texts.

Remember, not everyone has full keyboards on their cellphones, and some cellphones don't like to show the right letter (e.g., my cellphone... when I hit the 6 key three times to get "o," I might get "o," or I might get "mn," "nm," or "mmm"), so it's easier/quicker/less of a pita to hit the 2 key four times for "to," "too," or "two," or the 4 key four times for "for" (all three letters are three punches each on their keys, thus offering three potential error combinations for each), etc.

I wouldn't do "l8r/l8tr" for "later," though - the "at" that the 8 replaces are both first punches on their respective keys, whereas the 8 is four punches on its key, wasting two strokes. I do use other abbreviations, particularly for words with doubled letters (e.g., "nd" for "need," since the e's and the d are all on the same key, and require a wait between entries of each letter).

As you may have noted, however, I *don't* do such things in posts, or anywhere that I have a full keyboard, unless I do it for (intended) comic effect.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

<snippage> ... that pattern means you don't give a shit about my time.

There's another set of people like this: those who are late to *everything.* A former sister-in-law was a chronic late arriver. Her mother blamed it on her being born a week later than the doctor's estimate, and they all simply *laughed* and said, "Tina will be late for her own funeral." Tina (not her real name) took this so seriously that she actually put in her will and funerary instructions that her coffin was to be brought into the funeral home after the service had begun!

She was also almost an hour late for her wedding, and no one said the least cross word to her; and at her job, she was the only one in a 40 or so person office who had a "flexible" schedule: She was "scheduled" to work from whenever she got there until 9 hours later (one hour lunch, from which she usually returned late ).

People who waste my time like this - not being on time for appointments - absolutely drive me NUTS. My time is valuable, too, people. If you're supposed to meet me at X o'clock, dammit, be there at X o'clock!

 

[graceanne]

There's another set of people like this: those who are late to *everything.* A former sister-in-law was a chronic late arriver. Her mother blamed it on her being born a week later than the doctor's estimate, and they all simply *laughed* and said, "Tina will be late for her own funeral." Tina (not her real name) took this so seriously that she actually put in her will and funerary instructions that her coffin was to be brought into the funeral home after the service had begun!

She was also almost an hour late for her wedding, and no one said the least cross word to her; and at her job, she was the only one in a 40 or so person office who had a "flexible" schedule: She was "scheduled" to work from whenever she got there until 9 hours later (one hour lunch, from which she usually returned late ).

People who waste my time like this - not being on time for appointments - absolutely drive me NUTS. My time is valuable, too, people. If you're supposed to meet me at X o'clock, dammit, be there at X o'clock!

Yeah, I can agree on this one. Honestly, I consider people like that 'spoiled princesses', cause they don't care about anyone enough to be on time. It's all about them.

 

[graceanne]

Mine is people who drive half asleep. I know that the school zone is 20, but if you're still doing twenty a mile after the end of the school zone you're just asking for me to ram my car up your ass.

I need a caffeine dart gun.

Another is people who don't ask how you're doing (or something similar) when they call or get online with you. My sister does this - just jumps into her problem/s, and never even bothers with a polite 'hi, how are you'.

 

[DiscusDave]

Women who complain about being cold but are exposing more skin than not. Drives me right up the wall. I appreciate cleavage, don't get me wrong, but if half of your chest is showing, and it's cold out, no wonder you're cold. And the itty bitty excuse for a skirt, although extremely provocative, will do you no good in keeping your legs (since they're almost completely exposed) warm. So either put on more clothing or shut the hell up.

 

[Lady_Fiona]

Indicators.....they are not fucking optional extras

OK I'm done.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Women who complain about being cold but are exposing more skin than not. Drives me right up the wall. I appreciate cleavage, don't get me wrong, but if half of your chest is showing, and it's cold out, no wonder you're cold. And the itty bitty excuse for a skirt, although extremely provocative, will do you no good in keeping your legs (since they're almost completely exposed) warm. So either put on more clothing or shut the hell up.

Maybe they're hinting that they want you to warm them up, Dave... ever think of that?

 

[DiscusDave]

Maybe they're hinting that they want you to warm them up, Dave... ever think of that?

I do. But they're muscle head boy toys with 'em are very persuasive in making me think otherwise.

 

[MisterSir]

Where's my soapbox? Oh, left it in the other thread. I'll just talk.

So, I'm learning to drive. This would make me a learner driver. You've all been there before, you remember that it was quite difficult, learning to drive, and also fairly nerve-wracking. Why, then, must you persist in making my task more difficult than it already is by being complete and utter cunts? If I stall the car at traffic lights, do not fucking hoot me! It will not make me go faster! It will probably make me go slower to spite you! If you come across me turning into the road, do not fucking hoot there either! You can reverse! You can turn in the road yourself! You can go another fucking direction! I can't! So fuck off and fuck you!

Cunts.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

I need a caffeine dart gun.

Coolest idea I've seen all day.

Spitting in public. Disgusting.

 

[CurlyKat]

Where's my soapbox? Oh, left it in the other thread. I'll just talk.

So, I'm learning to drive. This would make me a learner driver. You've all been there before, you remember that it was quite difficult, learning to drive, and also fairly nerve-wracking. Why, then, must you persist in making my task more difficult than it already is by being complete and utter cunts? If I stall the car at traffic lights, do not fucking hoot me! It will not make me go faster! It will probably make me go slower to spite you! If you come across me turning into the road, do not fucking hoot there either! You can reverse! You can turn in the road yourself! You can go another fucking direction! I can't! So fuck off and fuck you!

Cunts.

As someone who just learned to drive a manual transmission (or really re-learned), I whole heartedly agree. Until you've got the coordination down, there's nothing you can do about it, so they can all just sit back and wait.

 

[ImOnIt]

People who say 'in these very modern times'


FUCK!




Bullshit, posing, plus ignorance. Im guess those three qualities could be expressed more concisely, but this phrase is close to hell.

 

[MisterSir]

As someone who just learned to drive a manual transmission (or really re-learned), I whole heartedly agree. Until you've got the coordination down, there's nothing you can do about it, so they can all just sit back and wait.

Yeah, this is the logical point of view, this is not hard to understand surely. What's the deal, do people simply turn off their brains as they turn on the car?

 

[ultramarineblue]

Yeah, this is the logical point of view, this is not hard to understand surely. What's the deal, do people simply turn off their brains as they turn on the car?

Of course, you can see that when you watch people text, put on make-up, write, and do all manner of things inappropriate while driving.

 

[ImOnIt]

Busdrivers who think they are in the cockpit of an F1.
People who roll cigarettes at the wheel

 

[ultramarineblue]

Busdrivers who think they are in the cockpit of an F1.
People who roll cigarettes at the wheel

First thought was.. zooooooooommmmmmmm and then the second thought was maybe it's not just a cigarette.

I would say that I need sleep but I got a lot of that today. I need something to make my head stop hurting.