Let's share our pet peeves

DrillSergeantCat

People that jump into a thread and give terrible advice that is 100% counter to all the sane, sound advice already given then get pissy when they get called out on it. 

short+sassy

OurWildKingdom said:

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. 

Doh!  I do that all the time at work.  But I usually say it more as an opportunity for the other person to request I come back later if they are in the middle of something. 

kimmiinthemitten

short+sassy said:

OurWildKingdom said:

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. 

Doh!  I do that all the time at work.  But I usually say it more as an opportunity for the other person to request I come back later if they are in the middle of something. 

On my sales team we have a rep who started about 4 years ago used to say this all the time, so we all started saying it and now it's the standard introduction when we have questions.

short+sassy

ShesSoCold said:

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.

I think most of my pet peeves could be lumped into that category!!!

I hate to bad mouth my adopted town of NOLA, but that kind of thing is SO much worse here than anywhere else I have lived.  There is this weird sense of entitlement and "everyone owes me" selfish attitude here.

My biggest pet peeve on that subject is cars that stop in a traffic lane...especially when they could have just as easily pulled over to the freakin' sidewalk...to let someone in/out or to "shout out" to their buddy walking down the street.  It happens to me at least a few times a week.  It is that bad.  Taxi cabs and delivery trucks are the worst offenders.

I also had a shuttle bus once park...in a driving lane...RIGHT next to my car parked along the curb as I was literally in the process of pulling away.  Not my proudest moment, but I kept my hand on the horn until they finally pulled away...almost 10 minutes later.  I mainly regret not writing down the number and license plate number and making a complaint to the company. 

short+sassy

debbeau said:

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. 

I am so sorry about your mom!  I'm cringing at your coworker.

OurWildKingdom

My team is getting smoked by the worst team in our division! WTF????

drglitter

People who drive like they have nowhere to be.

My neighbors who use our cul-de-sac as their own personal parking lot.

FH, who always decides the moment I'm ready to roll out of bed that he wants to cuddle. Dude, I just hit snooze for 45 minutes. You had your chance.

glasgowtolondon

CharmedPam said:

I realize mine were shopping carts left around everywhere.  People walking slowly through the grocery store, side by side, taking up the aisle and leave no room for me to walk around them.  And yes to a check out lane opening and the person who was waiting the least amount of time getting in first.

So basically, my pet peeve is grocery shopping. 

Mate, don't you have home delivery where you are? This is one of the best things we ever decided to do. Live your best life!

CharmedPam

lol! I have often wanted to do peapod - but Im just not a planner.  And the times i have planned meals, I end up deciding to go out and food sits in the fridge and some of it has gone bad.  I usually pick up stuff on the way home from work so it's nice and fresh!
But online grocery shopping is wonderful.  We use it at work.  Kind of like online shopping in general.  You find things you would never find in stores. 

DrillSergeantCat

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

bleve0821

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

ShesSoCold

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

GAH I hate the people on facebook who do that. "Does anyone know if the McDonalds on 47 is 24 hours?"

Ask the google.

CharmedPam

AtomicBlonde said:

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

Yes, unless FI is working - he always picks up the phone at the worst times!  Just because it rings does not mean you are required to answer it.  This is coming from someone who has no voicemail set up and never answers her phone..... I have caller ID.  I feel like that's enough? 

MissKittyDanger

AtomicBlonde said:

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

My H has sent the "check your email" because the one I use on my phone, I've disabled the notifications to save on data
 ShesSoCold said:

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

GAH I hate the people on facebook who do that. "Does anyone know if the McDonalds on 47 is 24 hours?"

Ask the google.

I'm using this sentence from now on lol

DrillSergeantCat

AtomicBlonde said:

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

This!! I have drivers call in here daily asking for directions. I'm like dude...you're on a damn iphone, use the gps. They inevitably call back at least once because they didn't write the directions down. Grrr.

CharmedPam

DrillSergeantCat said:

AtomicBlonde said:

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

This!! I have drivers call in here daily asking for directions. I'm like dude...you're on a damn iphone, use the gps. They inevitably call back at least once because they didn't write the directions down. Grrr.

right?  I mean with Siri you have a 50/50 chance of her actually getting it right.  That's not that bad! 

bleve0821

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

LadyCatherineDB

ShesSoCold said:

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

GAH I hate the people on facebook who do that. "Does anyone know if the McDonalds on 47 is 24 hours?"

Ask the google.

If you're feeling super passive aggressive, LMGTFY.com is perfect for that kind of thing.

kerbohl

I irrationally hate the song with the chorus "I can make your hands clap".  I have yelled several times at the radio that you can't make do do anything you a**hole.  I honestly do not know why I hate it, perhaps I just perceive it as some know-it-all rockers thinking they can make me do whatever they want. 

Other pet peeves have been well covered here. 

monkeysip

AtomicBlonde said:

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

Related to spam callers...

People coming to my door to sell me things.  We get this like once a week, which I find way too often.  

New doors, security systems, cable tv, lawn service, pest service.... I don't want any of it.  We don't have the money for any of it.  I also don't believe you when you say "It will cost me nothing".  I don't want a "free estimate", and I don't want to be on your email list.  Please just leave me alone.

Not to mention that H is almost positive that someone came to the door pretending to sell something as a pre-text to scoping out our house.  That's another story.

I feel bad... I mean... I know these people are just trying to make a living.  And if you were selling girl scout cookies, I'd love to help you out.  But you're not, so leave me alone!

kimmiinthemitten

AtomicBlonde said:

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

I've had one over the last 2 weeks!  The first 6 digits are the same, so as soon as I see it, I block it and the next day it's a new number.  GTFOH!

spockforprez

AtomicBlonde said:

DrillSergeantCat said:

Ugh! People who get on message boards and ask for information that they could easily google themselves, i.e. - "Help me find an affordable crib." Really? Go to target or BRU and look at them. Why do you need help with that?

My mother texts me all the time to ask me these things.  I'm like, YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE.  YOU JUST TEXTED ME ON IT.

She's also the person who emails me (knowing I also have a smartphone), and then immediately texts to say, "Check your email."

OH.  And the people who answer the phone to say, "I can't talk right now."  THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE VOICEMAIL!

And when I text DH to say, "I'm driving home now," he responds with 15 text messages.  DUDE I'M DRIVING, WTF???

All of this... my mom drives me NUTS with this stuff. We correspond 90% on facebook messenger, and if I message her while she's busy, she responds with, "Busy," or "driving," or "can't talk." So... don't respond, then! That's the whole point of messaging, you can just return it when you have time. Plus, when she does that, she rarely remembers to respond later.

Also someone mentioned ppl asking for directions... my MIL is the absolute worst about that. She asks me constantly for directions to places I've never been to and I'm just using google maps to find. When H was in the nursing home it was in a city I've never been in and she kept asking me where to find restaurants and how to get to X and Y. I literally don't know, MIL. I've never been here. BE AN ADULT! Like, whatever you would do if I weren't here, just do that! 

MandyPandy87

AtomicBlonde said:

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

I get SO many spam calls. It's crazy! I put my number on the do not call registry, but it can take up to 30 days to go into effect. I still have a week to go, although it has gotten slightly better.

I also now google every single number that calls me that I don't know. 99.9% of the time it's spam

bleve0821

MandyPandy87 said:

AtomicBlonde said:

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

I get SO many spam calls. It's crazy! I put my number on the do not call registry, but it can take up to 30 days to go into effect. I still have a week to go, although it has gotten slightly better.

I also now google every single number that calls me that I don't know. 99.9% of the time it's spam

I used to do that, but the moment I got my replacement phone, I was getting multiple calls from multiple numbers that were apparently BRAND NEW, and Googling came up with, literally, nothing.

My strategy is to let the first call go to voicemail (I miss most of them, anyway).  If they call a second time and don't leave a message, I block the number.

MandyPandy87

@AtomicBlonde ugh they are just the worst!

I also heard that now spam numbers will create a new number based on your area code (so I live in NY but I have a PA area code) because you're more likely to pick up a call with a familiar area code. Tricky bastards. 

short+sassy

MandyPandy87 said:

@AtomicBlonde ugh they are just the worst!

I also heard that now spam numbers will create a new number based on your area code (so I live in NY but I have a PA area code) because you're more likely to pick up a call with a familiar area code. Tricky bastards. 

Although this is true, legit companies will do this also.  My H, who is an IT guy, explained it all to me.  Here is what I vaguely remember, lol.  It happens when a company will use the Internet to place calls.  The "Internet" than grabs numbers available for that, from whatever point it is at right before the call is made, which will usually be the same area code.  I'm sure I've garbled the explanation, but it is something like that. 

short+sassy

monkeysip said:

AtomicBlonde said:

I apparently have a lot of pet peeves, but here's one more, and I think it might be my biggest pet peeve.

Spam callers.

I don't know what list I got on, but in the last week 15 different spam numbers have called me.  FIFTEEN!!! One has called me 46 times in the last 48 hours!  Thank god for call block.

AND THEY START AT 7AM ON SATURDAYS WITH NEW NUMBERS.

Related to spam callers...

People coming to my door to sell me things.  We get this like once a week, which I find way too often.  

New doors, security systems, cable tv, lawn service, pest service.... I don't want any of it.  We don't have the money for any of it.  I also don't believe you when you say "It will cost me nothing".  I don't want a "free estimate", and I don't want to be on your email list.  Please just leave me alone.

Not to mention that H is almost positive that someone came to the door pretending to sell something as a pre-text to scoping out our house.  That's another story.

I feel bad... I mean... I know these people are just trying to make a living.  And if you were selling girl scout cookies, I'd love to help you out.  But you're not, so leave me alone!

Oh, I'm just a b**ch.  I'll let people knock on my door and ring my bell forever.  Then knock on my window when they see I am right there sitting on the couch 100% ignoring their rude ass.  I won't even look up.  If I don't know you or am not expecting you, I don't answer my door.  Period.

I do this because 1) Safety.  I live in a decent sized city that has home invasion incidents at least once a month.  90% the home invaders access the house...by someone answering the door.  2) They are trying to invade my privacy and time.  Nope. 

Your H is absolutely right.  When we first moved into our house, two guys knocked on the door (my H answered) asking for some random person's name.  The people who had previously owned the house had lived there for 20 years, it wasn't their name.  Super fishy.  Our home was burglarized less than one week later. 

mrsconn23

Anyone who announces that they're leaving social media or 'taking a break' from it annoy me.   Anyone who cares about you will know how to find out offline. 

I have a kooky ex-coworker who always posts when she's 'taking a break' from FB in case 'anyone is looking for her'.  All of her FB breaks last less than two days...and are usually less than a day.  That's the least of the crazy shit she posts on FB.  She's a nice person, but I just wonder about her.  Her only child is about to head off to college and that's probably going to be big drama once he's gone (to an in-state school and just over an hour from the area).  I wonder if he thinks (knows?) his mom is crazy?  (He's a nice young man and seems to have a good future ahead of him.  He received a full-ride scholarship.) 

DrillSergeantCat

mrsconn23 said:

Anyone who announces that they're leaving social media or 'taking a break' from it annoy me.   Anyone who cares about you will know how to find out offline. 

I have a kooky ex-coworker who always posts when she's 'taking a break' from FB in case 'anyone is looking for her'.  All of her FB breaks last less than two days...and are usually less than a day.  That's the least of the crazy shit she posts on FB.  She's a nice person, but I just wonder about her.  Her only child is about to head off to college and that's probably going to be big drama once he's gone (to an in-state school and just over an hour from the area).  I wonder if he thinks (knows?) his mom is crazy?  (He's a nice young man and seems to have a good future ahead of him.  He received a full-ride scholarship.) 

And then come back bitching that no one even noticed they were gone. Just stop. Please? I've started deleting people who do that. One chick it was literally once a month and I got tired of seeing it. Another guy kept putting the most attention seeking crap and I was having a hard time not being a total ass to him. Once his status was "Post this if you think you're ugly and anyone who likes it disagrees." My response was a meme that read, "You've been diagnosed with a serious case of attention seeking disorder." Just...no. Find some other way to get attention.

6fsn

People that can't make a plan. My mil wants to take the kids to a movie. Great pick a day. She wants to do "last minute". We have a social life. I'm not sitting around waiting on you to decide then get pissy when we aren't available.