pet peeves?

ggmae

Lpstl - Ours love the bathroom too! When DH gets up earlier than me in the morning, they sit outside the bathroom and cry to be let in, which in turn wakes me up. Our bathroom has 2 doors, so they sit outside 1 door and stick their paws under it while meowing. Sometimes, I let them in, but Coco goes right in the tub or jumps at the shower curtain and Bear digs for q-tips in the trash. He's obsessed with them!

dsouldiva

People who say Pacific or pacifically, when it's Specific or Specifically!And it's not because they have a lisp, it's because they're stupid.  If you can say Spoon, then get it right... it's SPecific!!!!! Pacific is an Ocean your morons!Oh and people who say "can I lend" when they mean "borrow".  i.e. "Can I lend your bag?".... to whom exactly would you like to lend my bag to?  It is "can I borrow your bag!" Pretty much anything relating to poor grammar.  I want to slap the University Professor who came out and said "we shouldn't care about spelling and grammar, it's not that important"... It is to me!(OK so this next one is directed at the Benefit dependent lazy idiots in the UK, not people who have been genuinely affected by the recession)People who don't work, live for free off our Government, get free school meals (but don't send their kid's to school), free housing, free healthcare etc Who then COMPLAIN about being poor and then use the phrase "it's not my fault" and "no-one's helping me".  OK, it is your fault, you don't work, you had a family you cannot afford to support and your not trying to do anything about it, TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY, get off your backside and go and take one of the million free college courses being offered to you, get a job and work for a living like the rest of us.  Everyone is trying to help but no-one's willing to pay you £30,000 a year for sitting at home watching TV!  Oh and people on benefits who Smoke and are alcoholics! Quite why the Government is funding this I don't know?........... and breathe!This was a very therapeutic exercise, I feel almost chilled. 

thesuninherhead

I hate it when the 'reply' picture doesn't load, and because the knot's web monkey apparently wasn't intelligent enough to design a page with a html word based link under the picture, I get stuck having to open a new browser to reply to a thread.I wore jeans on the trip home from the states, and really tight stockings with a dress on the way over. Every international trip I've had, I've looked with longing at the tracksuits and comfy bed-like clothes people are wearing, wishing I wasn't so concerned about looking cute so that I could do the same.

sol_star

I'd say my big pet peeve is people who work in the service industry who act like you are inconveniencing them by making them do their job.  Seems to happen more from young kids who have up to then been living off someone else.I have stopped myself a few times from saying: "Oh I'm SO sorry you are actually having to DO something to get paid.  I realize it is so unfair to make you do work at WORK."Second pet peeve is people who keep their eyes open when they get a massage.  It creeps me out and makes me wonder why they aren't all relaxed and sleepy.

crazycatladyk

Being given a deadline at work (I don't have a traditional office job) by someone who has no authority to give me a deadline. We have an administrative assistant in the office I rarely go to who sends me e-mails saying "Please get this done by tomorrow evening, thanks!" Um, no - I have a full schedule between now and then, it's not that urgent and I KNOW it's not because I've been here awhile, and you should know by now that you never hand a trainer a deadline by e-mail with less than 3 days' notice 'cause we're not at our computers all day. But that's all beside the point because *you have no authority to give me a deadline; you are an administrative assistant, get over yourself*. Gah. Anyway. Go easy on the folks in PJ/yoga/juicy/lululemon pants on airplanes. I dress a little nicer than that to fly but not by much and do wash up/brush my hair, but with 2-3 transcontinental flights a year, I totally get how someone might just say "screw it" to fitted clothes and nice shoes and dress comfortably for their 12 hours in a tiny chair. This year we lucked out and get to fly ANA, but I've learned my lesson about jeans and cute tops and will be in a black t-shirt, drawstring kung fu pants and slip-on comfy flats and hair piled on my head rather than styled.

bbyckes

Showing your abs when it is clearly a crinkled muffin top. DED. Sascha you outdid yourself.