Pet peeves, let's hear them...

[Locut0s]

Last night I went to see Man of Steel, might post a review of it later. Anyway we were barely in time to the theatre and had to sit close to the front but I was just glad we got in. We sat down while the trailers were playing and immediately I noticed that the row behind me was filled with yappy teens. So long as it's just during the trailers I'll leave it be, I said to myself. But no, as soon as the movie started I hear them yapping away. The film starts with a scene of a women giving birth, in pain. And I hear some guy snicker "really they have one of those scenes" with some other guys next to him laugh. So completely out of character, I turn around and say in a pissed off tone "if you guys don't shut up I'm going to go and get you kicked out of the theatre". That shut them up for most of the rest of the film. It's not like me to say that kind of thing but talking in a theatre is one of my pet peeves.

Would you have said something similar?

I surprised myself at saying this, felt a bit guilty almost. Think I was too harsh?

What are your pet peeves.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. That line that dumb-dumbs like to yell out of car windows.

"Get A Job"!

I can't stand to hear it.

It was yelled at me so many times...

Now when I hear it, I just can't stand it!

[Locut0s]

2. You mean yelled at pan handlers and street people?...

Yes I can't stand that either. I want to punch those shit heads in the face.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. That's the one.

[Locut0s]

5. Maybe I'm just lucky or the city I live in but I don't hear that that often...

And Vancouver has a very large homeless population. But yeah when I hear it, it makes my blood boil. WTF are they getting out of saying it anyway, besides a horribly misplaced smug sense of self superiority.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. I got to hear it a lot.

When I was on the streets, not a day went by without at least 1 person saying it.

Some days I heard it 4 to 5 times.

Now, when I hear it being yelled at someone, my blood boils.

[kentauros]

52. If you have the time (as in, they're stopped or going by slowly)

yell back, "I'll take yours because you're obviously a slacker and not at it right now!"

[NV Whino]

4. The idiots going 30 mph who automatically drift to the left hand passing lane.

Really guys, that lane is to be used to pass slow pokes like you.

Talking in the theatre, too.

[kentauros]

53. For driving, that's got to me my number-one peeve.

It's too bad no one seems to have the funds for either proper signage (Slower Traffic Keep Right | Left Lane For Passing Only) or troopers to pull these idiots over when they do crap like that.

Until that happens, all we can do is pass them on their right. The ones that attempt to intimidate them by tailgating are just as bad in my book.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Shit heads with their fucking crap.

People who drive with foglights on all the time.

And head-fuckers.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. people who don't know the meaning of YIELD or MERGE for that matter

[Locut0s]

17. Non YIELDers are just assholes wanting to create an accident...

People who don't know how to MERGE properly are sometimes under confident drivers though.

[kentauros]

54. I noticed in New Zealand that "Yield" is "Give Way"

I'd love to have that printed on my front bumper for all the local neighborhood drivers that refuse to give way when a car is parked on their side of the road.

If I see that kind of situation coming up, I drive as close to the center of the road as I can while keeping in my lane, because oncoming drivers are already moving over to the center of the road to get around the parked car. When they see I'm not budging, they usually yield

[RILib]

9. movie theaters

good luck getting them thrown out. I was threatened a few years ago when I didn't want to give up my seat to latecomers. There were no ushers. I never went back to that movie theater and I'm happy to report they went out of business not long afterward.

pet peeve: televisions in doctors' waiting rooms and other public places, always with idiots like Kathy Lee on them.

[Locut0s]

15. WTF, are you saying latecomers demanded to have your seats?...

How the fuck does that work? You come late you get the pick of what's left. If there are no seats left you go to the ticket counter and demand a refund for overselling the movie. End of story. There are no other viable options.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Too many headlights....

Really, people? Does your fucking penismobile, er......truck really need to look like the spaceship from Close Encounters?

[Locut0s]

16. Yeah that's definitely annoying. Another is...

Trucks raised up so that their headlights are level with your eyeballs. OK cool so your have your own mini monster truck with 3 foot mud tires, but do you need to fucking blind me with your headlights too?

[loli phabay]

26. thats one tjing i will ticket for, i hate that and failing to dim your brights

[raccoon]

11. People making a turn without signaling. Is it that effing hard? nt

[Locut0s]

13. This happens so often it's almost in another category...

But I agree how fucking hard is it to signal?

[MrScorpio]

12. People who eat crunchy things next to my ears

I hate that shit

[Locut0s]

14. Can't think when this has bothered me. Though...

Though in a theatre it might

[pinboy3niner]

18. Making note to self for next DU meetup...

[rrneck]

46. Even worse on the phone. nt

[Tom Kitten]

19. Patronizing and/or condescending people who think they know it all but are actually incompetent

case in point, without going into detail, my former newly assigned agents at my former car insurance agency, State Farm...

[Locut0s]

20. Dunning–Kruger effect...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[Tom Kitten]

22. thanx you for that link!

Helps explain a lot as to the psychology of certain people...makes me even more fearful, actually...

[loli phabay]

27. yup this, some people think cause they can google something that makes them an expert in every

Subject.

[madmom]

21. People who pull out in front of me with no traffic behind me, then

immediately turn on their turn signal! What's the matter couldn't wait 2 seconds more?

[Tom Kitten]

23. Oh I love that too!

Especially delivery truck drivers who do that and then double park right in front of you! Because they have a job to do and are on a tight time constraint, don't you understand?

[840high]

24. Tailgaters and pople who

don't signal.

[loli phabay]

28. yup and failing to stop on entering a highway, biggest one is people who dont

Slow down or yield the lane to emergency vehicles.

[vanlassie]

25. People who drive with no headlights when it's dawn or dusk.

They might as well be fucking invisable. I just know that if they were confronted, they would claim the don't need their headlights because "they can see fine". Arrrg!! I can't see YOU!!! On a two lane road where people want to pass, these stealth drivers are so damn dangerous.

[Locut0s]

29. All modern cars have daytime running lights...

At least for quite some time now. This doesn't make them as visible as they would be if they turned their main lights on but it's much much better. Older cars I agree, very dangerous!

[vanlassie]

30. Modern? I see late model cars with no lights all the time.

[Locut0s]

31. Hmm maybe this is a Canadian thing?...

All cars here have to have daytime running lights that can't be turned off. They aren't as bright as your main headlights but they are far better than nothing.

[vanlassie]

32. No, not here in California! I know some cars have them.

But only a few, apparently.

[Locut0s]

35. Actually they are mandatory in Canada since 1990, not the US...

According to Wiki. It's an interesting read actually. Yet another of those regulatory safety battles that car manufacturers have fought to varying degrees of success in different countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lights

In Canada and many European countries Daytime Running lights have been mandatory on all vehicles since 1990. Which is why I was surprised by the OP on this. I see that they are indeed installed on many many US models but the law in the US doesn't require them and there has been a certain a amount of controversy over their implementation.

[vanlassie]

36. We in the US always think freedom trumps safety....

We're idiots. Especially those of us who refuse to turn on our damn headlights!

[Chan790]

33. People who fail to reciprocate.

That thing {redacted name of person} enjoyed, isn't much fun for me and now my jaw aches...but return the favor?

"I don't do that." she says.

"I hope we can do this again soon." she says later.

"hmmm" I say as I'm walking away and deleting her from my phone.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

44. lol.

that is all.

just. lol.

[davsand]

34. Pedestrians in the middle of the street and bike riders not using bike lanes.

If there's a sidewalk and you are on foot USE the damn sidewalk. If there's a bike path USE the damn bike path and follow the rules of the road.

Last week my daughter was in my car driving to the grocery store when some assmunch bike rider tried to T-bone her as he blew down a sidewalk with a cell phone screwed in his ear. He never even stopped to look! Today, some guy was riding full tilt on the sidewalk and we watched as he almost knocked a woman over who was walking her dog--this was within three feet of a clearly designated bike lane that the city just spent a shit ton of money to carve out just for the bike riders.

A few weeks ago a group of about a dozen kids were strolling down the middle of the street--in spite of two perfectly good sidewalks--screaming, threatening and swearing at cars that pulled up behind them. Seems to me that in either case Darwin would have been right had anything bad happened.



Laura

[Locut0s]

38. Yes these get me too. Though I have to admit I...

I have to admit I jay walk a lot, but only when I'm not in the way of any car and only to cross the street, never walk ON the street.

The bike thing really pisses me off. WTF are you doing ridding 30kph+ on the sidewalk! You are going to get someone seriously hurt or worse! And they usually have the gall to look at you like you are the one's at fault if something happens.

[kentauros]

55. I post this site every now and then

just because it's a good bit of advice on How to Not Get Hit by Cars.

I do wish that site either was in PDF form, or had a pamphlet-printable version so all places that sell bicycles could hand them out with every sale. Maybe some people would learn about their future bike-safety...

[sakabatou]

37. If you're an adult, for fuck's sake, chew with your mouth closed!

[Locut0s]

39. This doesn't bother me that much. Maybe because I lived in China...

In the 80s. People chewed with their mouths open, slurped, made noises, burped, farted and much more in public ALL the time. It was a rural 3rd world country back then with different cultural norms.

[kentauros]

56. How do you know they haven't just gotten out of the dentist's office?

Or that their sinuses aren't completely clogged up? (I've had both happen and couldn't eat without keeping my mouth open.)

[LeftofObama]

40. People who talk on the phone in public.

With the exception of emergencies, I can't think of anything that I need to say to someone that is so important that it can't wait until I get to a private place.

[MadrasT]

41. Music being played, everywhere you go.

In stores.

In restaurants.

Everywhere.

I do not need or want to hear music every last place I go. When I want to listen to music, I like to choose it, not have someone else's choice forced into MY EARS. I consider it to be a form of assault.

And my current biggest object of hate... the fucking TV screens on top of the gas pumps at the Sunoco.

Jesus I just want the world to SHUT THE FUCK UP already. What is wrong with a little peace and quiet?

[ConcernedCanuk]

42. FaceBook friends who "share" stuff

.
.
.

that say "if you are my REAL friend

you will share this too" . . .

or

"do this to gain wealth, or you will be poor"

stuff like that . . .

Problem is, these FB people ARE real friends - people I know.

So I just ignore most of those posts they make.

But it irritates me.

'nuther thing,

taxes!



CC

[Flashmann]

43. Pet peeves

Here is one,of many:

Drivers,in front of me at red lights,who "creep" and inch forward,seemingly thinking they'll force the light to change sooner,then scant milliseconds before it does change,they lose focus and start rooting arond in the console or glove compartment or become so enthralled with the booger they just picked,they miss the light when it actually changes...I'm almost always behind one of these shit heads while waiting for very short left turn arrows...They finally notice the arrow is green just in time for them to get through,while making me and anyone behind me to sit through another entire cycle.

[rrneck]

45. Stickers on produce.

Especially if the sticker proudly proclaims "organic". Somehow the application of a sticker to organic produce that requires a quart of Goof Off to remove doesn't seem all that organic to me.

And this is the wrong place to advertise. Do they really think I'm going to notice what some frigging sticker the size of my thumbnail says (unless I'm trying to remove it with like a tenacious booger, which makes the advertising counter productive), much less take the time to drive across town to patronize the supplier of the produce when it is indistinguishable from any other produce. Hey, it's a frigging apple. Any grower that uses that kind of advertising is just another blood sucking, worker abusing, landscape defiling corporation anyway.

Keep your stickers off my fruit.

[PassingFair]

47. Women who "hover"...

Nothing "pisses me off" more than a woman who hovers over a toilet seat and sprays urine.

Do you think you're going to get some kind of BUTT GERM?

Stop it!

[Sissyk]

48. People that leave their buggy in the

parking lot to play bumper cars with my car. Put it in the rack for gods sake!!

Hubby says "Hey, buggy patrol lady! There's one." lol

[Brigid]

49. People who call me "baby girl."

I am 55 years old. Both of my parents are gone. I'm nobody's "baby girl!"

[a la izquierda]

50. Buttholes who let their dogs run off leash everywhere!

Gah! My dog is a little skittish and does not love all other dogs.

Also, when my students dick around on their phones in class. You are not that important. Stay off the goddamn phone for 50 minutes!

[fizzgig]

51. smokers who toss their butts on the ground or out the car window

i smoke but try to be considerate about it. if there's no ashtray, i field strip the butt and stick in my back pocket until i can throw it away.

i know a lot of newer cars don't even have ashtrays, but keep a can in the car for the love of the gods.

[LWolf]

57. Poor written communication.