Pet Peeve

kaos16 · May 2013

My office is in a compex off of a main roadway where people drive very quickly. Often times, people do not know which building they need to go to in the complex, which I understand. However, I will never understand why people insist upon slamming on their brakes on the highway to try to see if each entrance is the one they should use, or just stopping in the lane of travel within the complex to look around for where to go!

Why is it so difficult to pull over, out of the way, to figure out where you need to go?

Anyone else have something driving them bonkers today?

JennaMichelle88 · May 2013

A woman near me on the train had her music in her headphones so loud I could hear it clear as day. 1) I don't want to hear your crappy music at 7:00 am and 2) how are your ears not bleeding? I love public transit. ETA: also, my computer is being an ass this morning. At this rate I'll start being able to actually get work done around noon.

peekaboo2011 · May 2013

There's a street musician at the exit of the metro stop I get off at every morning. Frequently he's playing trumpet. There is no need to have my ears blasted out by your trumpet at 8AM.

AddieCake · May 2013

I couldn't sleep last night, so I am on 3 hours of sleep. This morning, when I got to tutoring, my kid told me he didn't feel like doing anything, so could we just do it all tomorrow? Oh, helllllllllll no!

AllieBear725 · May 2013

I'm on a stupid wedding diet, and I'm STARVING. I didn't have time to make breakfast this morning, and one of my co-workers is currently working on a breakfast biscuit that smells delicious. I'm about to jump over my desk and snatch it from his hands.

AddieCake · May 2013

Yeah, that sucks, Kristan. As you know, my pregnancy pet peeve is former students who are all of 19 or 20 who OOPS! got pregnant inboxing me with "tips to get pregnant" b/c they know I'm trying. Pfffft.

JennaMichelle88 · May 2013

AddieL73 said:

Yeah, that sucks, Kristan. As you know, my pregnancy pet peeve is former students who are all of 19 or 20 who OOPS! got pregnant inboxing me with "tips to get pregnant" b/c they know I'm trying. Pfffft.

Are they serious? Gross.

AddieCake · May 2013

Jenna, unfortunately, yes.

Kristan, that's how my favorite aunt and I feel about those questions. People need to mind their business about that stuff; you never know when you are being hurtful with those questions. Unless I've shared baby-making talk with you, don't press me for info about my reproductive plans.

harper0813 · May 2013

LingerLonger1 said:

There was a cyclist riding on the 4-lane road on my way to work this morning. It's a pretty dangerous area and I'd never bike there but whatever. I watched him ride right through 4 red lights without even slowing down. The streets he was crossing were fast-moving roads, and are heavily trafficked at that time of morning. This irritates the siht out of me because if a car had hit him the driver would have been blamed but that fuckign cyclist was actually the ashsole.

I hate these types of cyclists. They equate themselves and their mode of transporation to pedestrians and are convinced that they have the right of way all the time. It drives me crazy when they blow through red lights, weave through cars, and cycle on the wrong side of the street - but what drives me CRAZIEST is when they bike on the sidewalk. There's an ordinance against it in most major cities, including St. Louis, unless you're under the age of 12. YET, yesterday, while I was driving back to work from my lunch break, there was a police officer on a bike crossing the street on his bike (in a crosswalk) at about 1 MPH, smiling at me in a maniacal, Jack Nicholson sort of way, and he proceeded to bike onto the sidewalk looking smug and self-important. And he continued for the rest of the block until I had driven past and could no longer see him. Not only is what he doing dangerous to pedestrians, but he's breaking his own law.

glitterunicorn13 · May 2013

I am completely sick of people flicking ciggies out of their car window. I am not judging people for smoking, but PLEASE do not flick it out of your car... that is just wrongo (for many reasons), especially if it is lit!

harper0813 · May 2013

Speaking of cigarettes, I'm peeved by my downstairs neighbor, who smokes on the balcony and makes it impossible for us to open our windows or balcony door without our apartment stinking of cigarette smoke. Ours is a smoke-free building, so I wonder if the balcony counts as part of the building...

harper0813 · May 2013

Thanks @StageManager14! I'm going to call the property management company to find out - we lease from a guy that owns our specific condo so our lease only says "will abide by building codes, policies and regulations".

AJuliaNJ · May 2013

@glitterunicorn, I agree! I don't know why people seem to think that cigarettes don't count as littering. You would never just throw a soda bottle out your car window so why a still-burning cigarette butt?

My pet peeve right now is people who need directions to places. I know this is not nice or logical and it is me who is a jerk. In this day of Mapquest, Google Maps, and GPS's, giving anyone point-by-point directions to someplace feels like such an unnecessary chore, especially if they call when they are getting close to my house and I am rushing to get ready before they arrive. Since I've only lived in this state a few months, I usually just have to get on Mapquest myself to give the directions.

StephJean83 · May 2013

zoberg said:
Speaking of cigarettes, I'm peeved by my downstairs neighbor, who smokes on the balcony and makes it impossible for us to open our windows or balcony door without our apartment stinking of cigarette smoke. Ours is a smoke-free building, so I wonder if the balcony counts as part of the building...

When WI passed the smoking ban in public buildings and spaces, the law stated if you smoke in an apartment and the smoke leeks into hallways and someone else's apartment, that was in violation of the ban. I worked at a hotel when it first took affect and we did call the cops on a few guests who would say they were going to smoke anyways when we informed them of the new ban. The cops wouldn't do anything even though we had on tape them saying they would smoke in the room, broken screens from them trying "hide" the fact they smoked in the rooms and makeshift ashtrays that housekeeping would find in the room.

AddieCake · May 2013

Andrea, I have had to call and get correct directions when my GPS fails. Recently, I went to a neighborhood where my GPS kept telling me to turn right and I kept going in a circle. Turns out, the neighborhood had initially been designed a certain way and then they decided not to make one of the streets a through street, and it was one of those streets where it was named A street on one side and B street on the other side, so GPS was completely wrong with the directions.

Peledreamsofrain · May 2013

I agree with the cigarettes being thrown out the window. Especially here in the west were we have a freaking fire season. Last year I84 was shut down for days because of a fire started from the road. It's a huge shipping artery and likey cost people millions; and that's besides the cost our state had to shoulder because of some negligent travelling fukker .

glitterunicorn13 · May 2013

Uh-oh I am a GPS-er here.... and a Mapquest as a back-up... OH DANG.... sorry

lyndausvi · May 2013

Having to give direction is a pet peeve? Wow that is a new one.

My building is so new it's not on all the GPS sites yet.

Peledreamsofrain · May 2013

Yeah.. being upset about a call to ask for directions isn't rational. I can't tell you how many times my old phone overheated and froze during navigation, leaving me screwed for anything but rebooting and letting it cool off.

glitterunicorn13 · May 2013

Like when I took the kiddies to Orlando this past weekend, I had a printed out Mapquest set of directions to the hotel AND I was running GPS. It is my Air Force training, I suppose that forces me to always have two ways or more to do anything. You never know when your "instruments" (GPS) may fail, so have a back-up (printed map).

It is just my silliness.

smalfrie19 · May 2013

zoberg said:

Speaking of cigarettes, I'm peeved by my downstairs neighbor, who smokes on the balcony and makes it impossible for us to open our windows or balcony door without our apartment stinking of cigarette smoke. Ours is a smoke-free building, so I wonder if the balcony counts as part of the building...

I used to have the same thing! Except they smoked pot. I don't judge people who do it, but I personally cannot stand the smell and I always had my 2 y/o nephew over. I eventually went down there one night and told him to knock it off.

Jessa617 · May 2013

Today my pet peeve is people that call to order "a pump" but have no clue what model, size or anything really that they need.

glitterunicorn13 · May 2013

No, it was kind of a "whoops, I do exactly what annoys you and wow, even go further than that" kind of thing. It was for the person that was annoyed about the directions thing, I should have just replied to that post. I was multi-tasking, at work. ETA- it was tongue in cheek, poorly executed

kaos16 · May 2013

I know it doesn't make any sense, but everytime someone flicks a cigarette butt out the window of the car in front of me onto the road, I fear that my gas tank will ignite when I go over it, blowing me up. I know that doesn't happen, but for some reason I cringe every single time.

glitterunicorn13 · May 2013

I retract. Too much programming crap on my desk today...

AddieCake · May 2013

Another of mine is when people with kids refer to their kid in months if he or she is over 12 months. Your kid is 14 months? No. He's one, dammit.

Jessa617 · May 2013

Another pet peeve... the shakeology cult. Enough said.

smalfrie19 · May 2013

StageManager14 said:

@Addie, that drives me nuts too. Some woman was talking to me yesterday about her baby. When I asked how old he was, she said "38 months". What the fuck, lady? Your baby is a toddler, and he's motherfucking 3, okay?

OMG! I just went to quote this to respond and i realized by quoting i can see @stagemanager14 swears!! Day made!

Oh, and I agree. I mean I can understand MAYBE up to 18 months, but after that its like no...

smalfrie19 · May 2013

StageManager14 said:

smalfrie19 said:

StageManager14 said:

@Addie, that drives me nuts too. Some woman was talking to me yesterday about her baby. When I asked how old he was, she said "38 months". What the fuck, lady? Your baby is a toddler, and he's motherfucking 3, okay?

OMG! I just went to quote this to respond and i realized by quoting i can see @stagemanager14 swears!! Day made!

Oh, and I agree. I mean I can understand MAYBE up to 18 months, but after that its like no...

Well that blows Guess What Stage Said all to fucking hell now, doesn't it? Dislove!

awwww

Peledreamsofrain · May 2013

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AddieCake · May 2013

I just said so on FB, and I was told there is a big difference in the months and that's why they do it. FFS, I KNOW there is a big difference in the months as far as development. It doesn't make it any less annoying to me! If the months are relevant to me b/c I'm a doctor, day care worker/pre-school teacher or deciding whether or not I want to babysit your kid at his age, I'll press you for more specific information! Otherwise, he's "almost two," not 22 months!

Jess, what is this cult?

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