PET PEEVES (Page 2)

I think we are all in agreement onthe peopple who don't use turn signals...TOTALLY makes me crazy

The McDonalds mentality of America..I want it NOW I want it PERFECT I want it MY WAY on MY TERMS.....

People who don't make any effort to help themselves

People who live and work in an english speaking country (IE USA) who refuse to learn english

Backstabbers

Anyone who comes in my office and says "you don't look old enough to be a doctor" or some version there of. (I hear this about 2-3 times per day)

I saw one the other day that said "support the magnetic ribbon industry" har!

I haven't had to deal with this for a while, but my biggest peeve is people who obstruct foot traffic in airports - standing in the middle of the walkway, walking slowly 3 abreast through the middle of the concourse. I used to be a member of the Hartsfield International Airport Track Team and it drove me crazy - "Oh, look, ma, it's a man running through the airport. I wonder whatever it could mean? Perhaps we should stand in his way!" Ya know, some of us travel by air because we have to be somewhere...

Wow - touched a nerve there!

People who won't give a cyclist a couple of extra feet when they have it to give (whether or not I'm the cyclist).

People who rush, rush, rush to get ahead of you to right turn then make you slam on your brakes.

People who say "I dunno, I'm just too old for that anymore," about physical activity (assuming the activity isn't something completely brutal). That drives me nuts. You might be slower than you once were, you might have an injury that has no hope of healing, but you are not too old for anything until you decide you are. (I once had a friend who was 28 when I was 19 or so and he'd say, "Kim, I'm just not as young as I used to be..." about EVERYTHING!!! I was like "You're f-ing 28 years old, jackass!!!!" UGH!)

Canada geese. (Don't ask.)

max - 2005-07-05 10:07 AM  "Canada geese. (Don't ask.)" LOL...step in it lately Kim??

My entire city is one big goose turd. Did you know that, on average, those little ****ers poop 23 times a day?! And the poop isn't the half of why I hate them. I want to start one of those businesses where you train Border Collies to chase them, just because it would give me immense pleasure to watch the geese running scared. Not to mention that I consider them a menace to society.

I say feed the world's homeless with Canada Geese!!!

I hate people that make up words rather than learn what the correct usage is.  Two major non-existent words that drive me nuts:

Orientate.

Conversate.

Because someone has an orientation or conversation does not mean that they can orientate or conversate.  It's orient and converse.

Oh, and I when I correct you in an effort to broaden your vocabulary, please don't misuse a perfectly good pronoun: "Whatever."

kimj81 - 2005-07-05 1:15 PM

max - 2005-07-05 10:07 AM  "Canada geese. (Don't ask.)" LOL...step in it lately Kim??

My entire city is one big goose turd. Did you know that, on average, those little ****ers poop 23 times a day?! And the poop isn't the half of why I hate them. I want to start one of those businesses where you train Border Collies to chase them, just because it would give me immense pleasure to watch the geese running scared. Not to mention that I consider them a menace to society.

I say feed the world's homeless with Canada Geese!!!

I'll second that!  All they do is eat, poop, eat, poop, eat, poop, and reproduce.  After reproduction, there are more them that can eat, poop, eat, poop, eat, and then poop some more. 

Now that I think about it, that's all I really do, except for the reproduce part. 

Steve

No, they eat, poop, eat, poop, stand in front of cars (of course they always pick the drivers who are so morbidly afraid of hurting a damn goose that they just sit there while the goose eats and poops in the middle of the road), eat, poop, poop, eat, reproduce, attack people who get too close to the nest (which they of course have put as close to the busiest sidewalk as possible), eat, poop, stand in the road.

See, I SAID 'don't ask', but you all just had to comment. And now I'm just gonna go off about geese all day long.

1) People who park in handicapped spots (with or without the appropriate decal) and then gingerly walk from their car into Wal-Mart.

2) People who block and entire lane of a parking lot with their freakin' blinker on waiting for someone to pull out of a space that is 20 feet closer to the store than the next open spot.

3) People who take up 2 parking spaces in the belief that doing so will keep their precious car from being scratched. (I like to park my buggy to it looks like it hit their car when they come out of the store).

Yes. I have problems in parking lots. I know.

You know at least one, ME, always shower before going in a public pool!

Someday you might miss that...several years from now, of course!

My People pet peeves:

People who moan and groan whenever my husband (very tall) and I sit down in the movie theatre even when we are two rows up from them.  That is so rude. 

People who lay on their horn.

At work:

People who say to their children, "Behave or that officer is going to arrest you."  

People who say "Don't you have something better to do, like arresting drug dealers."

Do you really want me to answer that? I just question why someone would need to park closer if they are going to be walking around Wal-Mart to begin with. The wheelchair on the sign might indicate what the intent was, and there are a number of people who take advantage of the system. The point is you don't want people with walkers having to cover long distances until they can get to a motorized cart. Nor do you want someone trying to load a wheelchair van in a normal parking space. That's what those spaces are for. In a perfect world, young, able bodied people would park in the spaces futher out and leave those close to the store for people like your folks who can walk but get tired easily.

A long time ago, a neighbor in an apartment complex did that, parking diagonally across two spaces with his camaro. I parked my beat up, 15-year-old Plymouth Valiant diagonally about 1.5 inches away. He quit doing it. Am I a bad person?

3 - I would say people who want Creationism (a religious conviction) to be taught in Science classes. There is no logic in that, none at all.

6- He had me with "There's a sadness in her pretty face. A sadness all her own... from which no man can keep Sandy safe."