Let's share our pet peeves

thefanciestbeckler

I'm sure we've shared pet peeves before, but it's been long enough that we can totally justify sharing again. 

DH just walked in the room while I was literally in the middle of a show, sat down and and said "mind if I change the channel?" 

REALLY!?!? Just because I'm not watching Impractical Jokers or some show on TruTV doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. 

He followed that question with "I mean you have this recording right? Because if so it shouldn't matter if I change it." 

So there is my pet peeve for the night. TV hogs.  Your turn. 

AddieCake

My #1 is always people who don't put carts away, especially the ones who leave them RIGHT BY the corral. 

missJeanLouise

People who litter make me extra stabby.

monkeysip

AddieCake said:

My #1 is always people who don't put carts away, especially the ones who leave them RIGHT BY the corral. 

The worst is when they leave the cart right in the middle of the lane next to them.  I love having to get out of my car, move the basket, and then get back into my car before pulling into a spot.

I can't stand it when you're waiting in a long checkout line, and a new cashier opens up.  The people at the back of the line always rush over first.  That's rude.  I always ask the people in front of me if they want to go first.  I think in general, I can't stand people who think they're more important.

MesmrEwe

Chewing and drinking/slurping LOUDLY!  My gosh - I swear DH can crunch hot water!

OurWildKingdom

Mine is FW taking up three-quarters of the bed and leaving me clinging to the edge of the mattress.

SP29

Grocery stores tend to make me angsty.

Often too many people in a small space. I agree about the carts. Put the damn thing back!

charlotte989875

OurWildKingdom said:

Mine is FW taking up three-quarters of the bed and leaving me clinging to the edge of the mattress.

I do that to H. We're buying a king bed soon. 

Mine me is moving phone chargers. We have like 10 chargers for the phones and he always takes the one I keep next to my bed. I bought more so he wouldn't steal that one and sure enough when he can't find one (which is really just that he doesn't look for one) he takes mine. Drives me up the wall. 

bleve0821

Dishwasher is empty, and DH leaves his dirty plates and glassware next to the sink.

Really? 

Also the putting of empty boxes back in the pantry, or less than a swallow of milk back in the fridge, and then not telling me we're out of granola bars or milk.

AddieCake

monkeysip said:

AddieCake said:

My #1 is always people who don't put carts away, especially the ones who leave them RIGHT BY the corral. 

The worst is when they leave the cart right in the middle of the lane next to them.  I love having to get out of my car, move the basket, and then get back into my car before pulling into a spot.

I can't stand it when you're waiting in a long checkout line, and a new cashier opens up.  The people at the back of the line always rush over first.  That's rude.  I always ask the people in front of me if they want to go first.  I think in general, I can't stand people who think they're more important.

YES. And that new cashier usually says " I can take the next person in line." That's the person at the FRONT, not the BACK! Asshats.

bleve0821

Oh, and when you insist (read: override my requests) we watch super scary movies, promise we won't watch them at night or in the total dark, then start it an hour and a half before bed and bitch at me when I try to turn a light on. 

That's a huge pet peeve. 

ETA bitches ALWAYS open the door.

CMGragain

Smokers who throw their butts out the window while driving.  The world is not your ashtray, especially during high fir alert season.
People driving while on their cell phones.
People texting and driving.

Greenjinjo

CMGragain said:

Smokers who throw their butts out the window while driving.  The world is not your ashtray, especially during high fir alert season.
People driving while on their cell phones.
People texting and driving.

Is using your phone while driving illegal over there? It is over here (minus the hands free functionality) but that doesn't stop people and it pisses me off. 

People who don't know how to use the indicators. Oh you know where you are going? I guess that means that I don't need to so that is cool. Thanks, idiot. 

6fsn

"At the end of the day...."  It's like nails on a chalkboard at this point.  Also kids are only going to know chalkboards as things pinterest parents put on things.

Extra peevey: I FINALLY got to a healthy weight for my height.  I shrunk!!

kimmiinthemitten

CMGragain said:

Smokers who throw their butts out the window while driving.  The world is not your ashtray, especially during high fir alert season.
People driving while on their cell phones.
People texting and driving.

On the flip side of this, people who don't mind their damn business. I drive 22.000 plus miles a year for work, and on a handful of occasions I have been yelled at for "being on my phone" when it's my GPS, which is way safer in my hand then a printed mapquest. 

mrsconn23

DH works out 3-4 days a week, at home, and it takes him 2-3 hours (which annoys me to no end, as I work out the same amount of days, but my workouts are 30-45 min, maybe an hour from time to time).  Now he wants to join a gym.  I don't want him to as he wants to go work out in the late afternoon/early evening...so right as I'm getting off work, the kids are getting home from school, homework needs to be done, dinner needs to be made, etc. He sleeps all day due to his work schedule and he usually tries to nap after dinner.  So he's going to be even more fucking worthless to me now that he's going to be gone for 2.5-3.5 hours 4x a week and coming home tired from maxing out at the gym.  He doesn't understand that it's not that I don't want him to workout or even the cost of the gym...It's the cost of time.   

We've been having the same argument for a few months about how he's scheduling himself and his time because the selling point of the 3rd shift was how he'd be home more and able to help out.  Well, I'm not fucking seeing the help.  And on the weekends, we either have shit going on OR he wants to do a project.  So I'm *still* stuck inside doing all the routine housework by myself.  I mean, I get the kids to help...but still, the majority of it is my responsibility. 

His argument is that after bedtime, I have "3 hours to sit around and watch TV and be online."  Uh yeah, but who pays the bills (online), schedules appointments, worries about family management, and does the grocery shopping (any where from 3-6 hours of my weekend).  So leisure time evens out in the wash.  Ugh.  I want to get past this, but I feel like I can't find the right way to explain to him that I need *more* compromise from him (like no 3 hour workouts or naps after dinner). 

charlotte989875

mrsconn23 said:

DH works out 3-4 days a week, at home, and it takes him 2-3 hours (which annoys me to no end, as I work out the same amount of days, but my workouts are 30-45 min, maybe an hour from time to time).  Now he wants to join a gym.  I don't want him to as he wants to go work out in the late afternoon/early evening...so right as I'm getting off work, the kids are getting home from school, homework needs to be done, dinner needs to be made, etc. He sleeps all day due to his work schedule and he usually tries to nap after dinner.  So he's going to be even more fucking worthless to me now that he's going to be gone for 2.5-3.5 hours 4x a week and coming home tired from maxing out at the gym.  He doesn't understand that it's not that I don't want him to workout or even the cost of the gym...It's the cost of time.   

We've been having the same argument for a few months about how he's scheduling himself and his time because the selling point of the 3rd shift was how he'd be home more and able to help out.  Well, I'm not fucking seeing the help.  And on the weekends, we either have shit going on OR he wants to do a project.  So I'm *still* stuck inside doing all the routine housework by myself.  I mean, I get the kids to help...but still, the majority of it is my responsibility. 

His argument is that after bedtime, I have "3 hours to sit around and watch TV and be online."  Uh yeah, but who pays the bills (online), schedules appointments, worries about family management, and does the grocery shopping (any where from 3-6 hours of my weekend).  So leisure time evens out in the wash.  Ugh.  I want to get past this, but I feel like I can't find the right way to explain to him that I need *more* compromise from him (like no 3 hour workouts or naps after dinner). 

We went through something similar last spring when H was training for a competition. He was going to the gym every night for his MMA class but then started going in early, staying late and scheduling workouts Saturday and Sunday evenings. So he'd be gone from like 5-9 every night during the week and then evenings Saturday and Sunday. I would have no idea when he'd come home, if we were having dinne together or what. He also hunts all the time in the fall so it wasn't like it was just for a few weeks during training. 

I got to the point where I was so frustrated. I never saw him. We had a big discussion about it and he took on more stuff at home. I just felt like I was asking him (repeatedly) to spend more time with me/at home and I really hated feeling like I was in a position where I had to ask for that. 

ShesSoCold

Generally people with no regard for anything around them.

The asshole in traffic who remembers he needed to turn left here and then stops in the right lane, fucking everyone over until he can get into the left lane, the people stopping in the middle of walkways to look at their damn phone, the people who stop in the fire lane at the walmart because they're going to the redbox, the grocery store people already mentioned, etc.

My neighbors park their car directly across the street from my driveway. I'm a shitty driver, it's only a matter of time before my dumbass backs into your car.

At a concert last year, the woman in front of me stood on her seat three times to take pictures with her friends. Right in fucking front of me. First time, fine. I know that everyone needs to take pictures of fucking everything all the time. Second time, annoying. Third time, I politely (LOL) told her she was not the only person there. And she got pissy with me.

Totally unreasonable pet peeves - when you pour a glass of milk too fast and it makes bubbles. I HATE milk bubbles. When I ask my husband for his opinion on something and he gives me my opinion ("do you want to go to the store today or tomorrow?" - "If you want to go today that's fine"). NO. I am aware of my own opinion. When people talk to me when I'm on the phone, every single thing about my job, one-uppers, people who make every conversation about them. For some reason, I despise putting away leftover pizza.

OurWildKingdom

This is a silly one, but it annoys me when people preface their questions with, "I have a question." Just ask me, FFS.

Also, when the front desk sends me calls they don't want to deal with. 

DrillSergeantCat

Re: grocery carts - the ones that get me are the ones who put the front two wheels on the median. It is literally more work to hike up the front two wheels onto the curb than it would have been to walk it to the cart corral. 

monkeysip

ShesSoCold said:

 one-uppers

This X million.  

banana468

Silly pet peeve - sunglasses on inside.   If you don't have a vision issue then take off the damn sunglasses.   You're not that cool.

bleve0821

monkeysip said:

ShesSoCold said:

 one-uppers

This X million.  

not just one-uppers, but the people who also make every.single.conversation about them. "Oh you had an appendectomy last week? Yeah, my cat horked up the most disgusting hairball last night. TOTALLY ruined the new rug."

ShesSoCold

Bob Costas is also a pet peeve of mine.

I have no idea why. I freaking hate Bob Costas. I love the Olympics but he ruins it for me.

banana468

ShesSoCold said:

Bob Costas is also a pet peeve of mine.

I have no idea why. I freaking hate Bob Costas. I love the Olympics but he ruins it for me.

How can you hate him?   He's exactly the same! 

debbeau

I have a one upper incident I have been holding in for three weeks and have not shared with anyone.  A coworker at the lunch table one day asked how things were going with my moms paperwork and things (she died 2 weeks before). An asshat coworker interrupted and said  "you think  your mothers giving you problems. Mine expects me to spend my Saturday taking her to the doctor. Why can't she drive. It was just cataract surgery". Asshat signed the sympathy card my coworkers sent so she knew.

Thanks, that felt good getting off of my chest. 

ShesSoCold

UGH debbeau! How horrible of her!! Jesus! Also I'm sorry about your mom.

I have no idea what bothers me about Bob Costas or why. He just irritates the piss right out of me.

Edited for error

DrillSergeantCat

People that don't know how to merge! I see almost daily people who damn near stop while getting on the highway because they're too timid to merge or the jerks that have a clear lane next to them, but won't get over to let people on. Then, there are the people who use the Texas turnaround and have 1/4 mile to get over and don't have a yield sign for that reason, but they go around and stop. I just want to scream, "YOU DON'T HAVE TO STOP!!!"  

Sherbie25

ShesSoCold said:

UGH debbeau! How horrible of him!! Jesus! Also I'm sorry about your mom.

I have no idea what bothe rs me about Bob Costas or why. He just irritates the piss right out of me.

Read the post again, the co-worker is a woman. Women can be arseholes as well you know.

ShesSoCold

Sherbie25 said:

ShesSoCold said:

UGH debbeau! How horrible of him!! Jesus! Also I'm sorry about your mom.

I have no idea what bothe rs me about Bob Costas or why. He just irritates the piss right out of me.

Read the post again, the co-worker is a woman. Women can be arseholes as well you know.

Thanks. It was a reading fail, not a gender generalization.

OurWildKingdom

@debbeau, I am so sorry about your mom. I would have gone off on that idiot coworker. (((((Hugs))))))))