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Ok, we all have 'em, so lets hear 'em! Maybe this will give all of us a clue as to what people dislike about others in general....no bashing other artists allowed!!
1. People who dont say thank you when you hold the door open for them....like its your job to do it...sheesh!
2. People who dont wave a simple thank you when you let them cut in traffic....its so easy to do, everyone should do it!!!
3. Husband who dont know how to load their dirty dishes in an empty dishwasher...arrgghhh!
4. When someone gives away the end of a movie you have been dying to see (Mom if your reading this, your guilty!) *smiles*
5. Cold Starbucks coffee...ugghhh!
6. People who dont have their forms filled out when they go to the post office and tie up the line while doing it right there...The PO is one of my least favorite places to go. I want to be in and out quickly!
7. Boys and the toilet seat...I dont think I need to say anymore
Are you guilty of any of these things?? *grin*
Kim
Charlotte Des Roches DesignsOhhh Kim...great topic...cause I have some big time pet peeves...
1. People who expect to get plowed out when there is 4 feet of snow...and can't pay or do anything toward the effort...
1.a. People who want to be plowed out NOW but won't be able to pay you until the end of the week..what week is my question...and next storm...they can wait til the end of whatever week that might be.
1.b.People who are just totally dependent on the government to help them when they choose to live in an area where they should know better...and are not prepared for mother nature.
2. People who are total freeloaders.......
3. People who don't have an original idea ...
Sorry about venting..but thanks for the chance!!!
Hugs &
Apple Dumpling DesignsThe God's must have known I needed to vent... :crackup:
Today, my pet peeve is....drum roll...
RUDE people at the grocery store. Those who fill their cart with an item (especially if it's on sale) and don't leave ONE for anyone else. I'm not talking about taking the last one or two but 10 or more. This happened today. I went to the store and as I was walking in near the produce I noticed that this item I buy regularly was on sale in the "health food section"...the next thing I see is some woman tossing in every single bag of it into her cart...not just two or three but the entire shelf. At first, I thought it was perhaps a store employee removing them from the shelf but then I realized it was a shopper. She could careless that I was standing there waiting my turn to grab something from the shelf. If it hadn't been for my housemate she would have gotten a little piece of what's left of my mind. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
She must have sensed my irritation because everytime she saw me later in the store she would NOT come down the same aisle and if I came down an aisle she was in would immediately turn around and retreat. :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
I think that's enough pet peeves for me today.
Hugs,
Posts: 1,836he he he :crackup:
1. People who don't rinse the sink after they brush their teeth...I don't want to see that foamy used toothpaste gunk! Worse..if it is left to dry 
(shaving bits left behind fall into this category too...sorry hub!)
2. People who use the self check out in the grocery store and have NO IDEA (now or ever) how to use it. Every item scanned is a puzzle :crackup: (I laugh, my hub growls..he really has a growl)
3. People who won't let you into a line of traffic. Once one person starts it off the pack will suddenly follow...but where is that ONE PERSON when I need them?? (women are the worst...sorry gals we really are. Acting like we're on the phone and don't see that person waiting and pleading to be allowed to squeeze into traffic.)
4. Celebrities who moan and groan about war, peace, the government.... and then go rounds with other celebrities...like a pack of spoiled kiddies on a playground, but with way too much air time!
5. People who adopt an animal without researching first and taking the full responsibility seriously. That's the BIGGIE for me. I've adopted too many lovies from shelters after someone else decided they were disposable.
:hug:
~Chrissi
Charlotte Des Roches Designs:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: Shantell :hug: :hug: :hug: I vote for just grabbing some stuff out of that cart...and saying nothing...just walking away with a smile....and checking out real quick...
:hug: :hug: :hug: Chrissi :hug: :hug: :hug:your # 5 about the folks who adopt animals without a clue is a big part of my Pet Peeves above...people who have a horse, 2 goats & 4 dogs & 2 cats & 3 people...and do not have proper food for any when a major storm hits...
Hugs &
*laughing* The last big storm we had here, my husband went out the next morning with his chain saw. We knew there would be TONS of downed trees that we could gather some firewood for next year...well, pretty much all the trees fell on powerlines, so they were a big no-no to touch. We did find a neighborhood that had a tree across their only way in and out so my husband went and knocked on the door of the house that had the majority of the tree laying in their yard. He offered to help them get it out of there and they accepted....He wasn't expecting anything in return...ie: firewood or money. He just does these things to be helpful. Anyways, it was soooooooo cold and windy that day and we were out there for 3 hours while the man of the house and his 16 year old son sat in their house all nice and warm and occasionally came out to see how we were doing....I found it quite humorous, as I could have never done that. My kids were even helping haul off all the limbs of the tree for them. I would have been out there helping had I been the homeowners. The bright side, it turned out that nobody on the street needed wood to burn, so they allowed us to take the whole tree. It was a win-win situation for us, but initially we thought one of the neighbors wanted the wood, which was fine too and hubby continued to cut the tree anyways. Its all about helping other and being kind. I fully believe what comes around, goes around.
Hummm...I have never had the whole grocery store thing happen to me. I'm not quite sure how I would have handled it, but Im sure your housemate had the right idea. Sometimes its better to walk away and request a raincheck, then to cause a scene.
Kim
All VERY valid points ladies! Keep 'em coming and lets hope we all learn something from this.
Humm...whiskers in the sink....ya, thats a big one for me too, and even worse...hair!! GAG!!
Apple Dumpling DesignsMy housemate was absolutely right!!! I normally avoid conflict and don't let much ruffle my feathers. I think it was the blatant act of uncaring if anyone else might want any of that particular item...and I was in a mood (ha)!! Oh well...maybe next time someone else will empty the shelf in front of her. :crackup: :crackup:
Charlotte Des Roches Designs1.hubby spending 30 +hours on his backhoe...digging the 15 plus families out..with his 40 year old backhoe...me taking phone call after phone call...and having to do all the stuff here...like haul water& wood ,keep the woodstove going,trudging thru the 4 feet of snow..feeding our kritters..shoving snow off a porch roof that was about to collapse, digging out our vehicles...cooking..so my hubby would have good hearty meals...and the freeloading whiners...well hmmmmmm...
However I have praise too...for the folks who really appreciated the efforts..who rode their horses to the main road to get fuel for the backhoe..to the local volunteer fire chief who brought that fuel...to the neighbor who thought to contact the fire department...to the folks who made sure we were doing ok...and to the folks who paid my hubby whatever they could...to show their appreciation....and also to the folks on TT who seemed to understand what we were going thru...I thank you!!!
Hugs &
Kim-Bee BearsI have a lot of the same pet peeves as you all do... hmm... what can I add...
People who aren't genuine...
People who lie....
Starbucks Coffee, period (BLEECH!)
People not putting things back where they belong
People jamming the photocopier and not unjamming before walking away....
People using the last of something and not telling anyone
WHEEW! I feel better! he he he
Dolls N Dreams1. Waiting in line behind people at the post office that does not have any letters or boxes ready for shipping, that drives me nuts............
2. Rude drivers that never thank you when you let them cut in during heavy traffic......
3. Waitress that takes forever and a day to bring your ticket.
4. Hubby being to lazy to put dirty dishes in the empty dishwasher right NEXT to the sink
5. Hubby using the kitchen counter to house all of his junk mail, keys, sunglasses, gloves etc. PUT THEM UP!
6. Pulling through a drive through for a coke when there is only one person ahead of you, but that one person is ordering 30 hamburgers and 25 fries and 30 shakes...who is going to eat all of this stuff????
7. While your shopping at the grocery store you noticed no one is checking out so your try and hurry but by the time you are finished everyone in the store seems to already be ahead of you in the checkout lanes.
8. Going to a great shoe sale and all the size 8's are aready gone!
9. People that whisper
10. Driving slow in the fast lane.
Strange BearsI have one pet peeve..........
I don't drink coffee just hot chocolate and for some reason my husband orders a cappacino and gets a full cup and some froth......I order a hot chocolate and am lucky to get 1/3 cup of liquid and 3/4 froth......if I complain I'm told the milk froths more for chocolate or some other dumb excuse.....
Sandra...you have to say "no foam"....thats what I do. I hate paying for foam...I want coffee, or in your case, hot chocolate.
Starbucks Coffee, period (BLEECH!)
Blasphemy, Kim! Blasphemy!
Okay, I'll bite.
My pet peeves include:
*** Family members -- all of them (are you listening, guys?) -- who can't for the LIFE of them figure out how to get the roll of toilet paper they grabbed from under the sink, onto the holder. Criminies. You'd think it was rocket science.
*** People who fill my air with their cigarette smoke. I love the people (my mom, bless her COPD-clogged lungs, included); I hate the smoke. If I wanted to breathe smoke into my lungs, I'd be a smoker.
*** "Customer service" phone numbers, like the ones on the backs of credit cards. You're given nine options to dial, and NONE of them are ever the right one! Heaven help you if you actually want to talk to a real person; figuring out how to get a live human being on the line is absolutely maddening! It takes ten minutes just to sort thru six consecutive menus with nine options each. There must be a better way!
*** People who exit the bathroom without handwashing, leaving their poopy peepee germs all over the door handle and elsewhere. Yes, women are guilty of this, and more than we'd like to think. Ewwwwww.
*** Narcissists, and the closed-minded.
*** People who claim to be morally upstanding and/or Christian, who forget that Christ stood not just for issues of moral correctness, but also, maybe even moreso, for compassion, forgiveness, and tolerance. Do unto others. Love thy brother. Turn the other cheek. And so on.
*** The fact that restaurants never have diet sodas other than Coke or Pepsi, which taste way blecchier to me than diet Dr. Pepper or diet Sunkist or diet ANYTHING but Cola.
*** People who don't replace and refluff the sofa pillows after smooshing them into oblivion, leaving the job for me!
Gee, I really could go on for days with this list...
Thanks for the vent!
Apple Dumpling Designs*** People who exit the bathroom without handwashing, leaving their poopy peepee germs all over the door handle and elsewhere. Yes, women are guilty of this, and more than we'd like to think. Ewwwwww
Oh yes, that is one of my ALL TIME biggest pet peeves AND one of my biggest "out of the mouths of babes, embarrassing moments" as well. When my daughter was about 3, we were in a bathroom and some lady didn't wash her hands and little sweet Erienne chimes in as loud as she could..."mommy that lady didn't wash her hands HOW GROSS!!!". (Gross being her new favorite word thanks to a friend of mine). I wanted to die.
Oh you guys are killin' me here! I cant stop laughing!
Women are the worst when it comes to the bathroom....what slobs! Paper towels everywhere, water dripping off the counter onto the floor....it just makes you wonder if they would you do that in your bathroom at home??
I NEVER touch the door handles of a public restroom.....ackkk, ugghh and a BIG fat ewwww! Paper towel or hand tucked inside the sleeve if they are out of paper towels. That seems to always happen to me...out of TP, toilet seat covers or paper towels, and of course, you never figure it out until its too late!
Kim
"Customer service" phone numbers, like the ones on the backs of credit cards. You're given nine options to dial, and NONE of them are ever the right one! Heaven help you if you actually want to talk to a real person; figuring out how to get a live human being on the line is absolutely maddening! It takes ten minutes just to sort thru six consecutive menus with nine options each. There must be a better way!
at least you guys in the States have those cheat sheetwebsites that give you the tricks for getting through to a real person by saying a certain word at a point in time or the right sequence of numbers to push - no such luck here!
I always remember some radio djs calling IRD (our IRS) and calling the "rebates" department and you could hear the phone ringing for half an hour without being answered while they talked on air. Then they rang the "make a payment" line and in was answered by a person on the 2nd ring. Ha! They want our money and they certainly don't want to give it back.
Back Road BearsI vote we all stay out of the grocery store! Won't have to worry about the new year's resolution to loose weight and won't have to get ticked at the greedy woman, the long lines, the clueless self-check out users and the BAGGERS! Oh, those baggers!
Males and rolls of toilet paper... what is that??? Mine won't use up the last 30 or so sheets on the roll, has to get a new one out before the old one is finished then leave 'em both on the counter! Oui!!! :doh:
Ok, my pet peeves....
1. Being at the mercy of large corporations with miles of red tape and no care for the little person.
2. Self-serving business owners with poor ethics, poor customer service and poor quality products. How do they sleep at night?
3. The fact the real estate market stinks if you are trying to sell.
4. No snow in New England... it's winter for Pete's sake.... I want SNOW!
Saw PET peeves, so was going to post about my animals !!!!! then got here and saw this so thought I would share this.
We stayed at this B&B Tignamara Lodge now over the New Year period. This time at the coast trying to get dinner proved impossible as most restaurants were fully booked out, when we did book and arrive, we were told they were running 1 hour late, which with a 6 month old baby in tow was not acceptable or practical. Take outs we ordered took 2 hours to arrive so the food was cold and dried out, so we bought some food to have in the evenings i.e. cold chicken and salads. We asked the hosts to provide us with the necessary to eat, and we got 4 plates, 4 knives, 4 forks, 4 paper serviettes. No salt, pepper etc. Staying at the B&B was a mother and daughter, who had no transport, and who had been told they could get a dinner menu, only to be told that was not the case on arrival !!!, so we asked them to join us,every time we ate at the B&B.
Well to accomodate the two extra guests we went into the KITCHEN ,(the hosts had gone out) and the next morning this sign was stuck on all 4 doors going into the kitchen.
That same evening thou, other guests were entering the kitchen to get to the main electricity board, as they needed to switch on the trip switch whoch kept tripping the electricity in their room.
Now we left earlier than booked in, and I left a rude note in their visitors book and I got a rude reply by email from them, and I will still take this up with the tourism board, but for now this is my PET PEEVE.
Lynette
Chaska, MinnesotaWell this will be fun. My pet peeves:
- Having to exercise because of bone density issues. I do not find it fun or "refreshing". And, I don't feel good afterwards. In short, I hate it. I always feel hot, tired, sweaty and hungry when I work out!!! But my doctor is making me do this, this, this exercise thingy none the less....
- gaining weight when I don't deserve it...(Well....most of the time).
-Michael wanting to remain in possession of the remote control for the TV. Solution. He's downstairs and I'm upstairs. We now have our own remote control...I'm happier this way.
- When going through a drive through to get a burger and come to find out, they got the order wrong. Meaning, I like a plain hamburger and often, they put mustard, pickles and so forth on it when I asked for plain.
-Not enough gravy or butter when dining out. I always have to ask for more. What is wrong with people? I get this mingy little pad of butter on a baked potato. What is that about? I'm not health conscience. I like butter and lots of it...
-Petite clothes are still is too long for me....I still need my clothes altered.
Posts: 434~Having a neighbor use my water hose without asking.
~Having a neighbor walk his dog in my yard to use the bathroom.
~Family members that take off their dirty laundry and leave undergarments inside of other clothing.
~People that look at what I'm purchasing in line at the grocery store and comment on it.
~Family members that don't clean up from the midnight snack the next day and leave it for me.
~People that don't rinse out the bath tub after using it. (HAIR YUCK!!!)
~Neighbors that are loud until wee hours in the morning on a work day.( 2:30 a.m.)
~Having to watch & listen to a movie in a theater while 3 or 4 people around you talk on cell phones. HOW RUDE!!!!!
~ To wait in line at a resturant to be seated and have people cut you off like you weren't already waiting before they arrived.
Flying Fur Studiosha ha ha, you gals have some good ones!
:twisted: People who buy pets without research and they turn out to be out of control or at the pound.
:twisted: Going thru a drive thru for a coffee, only to have the one and only person ahead of me order for their whole office, with a long list and lots of questions.
:twisted: People who are scared while they drive. You can't handle the speed limit, or are too scared to merge? take the bus. We'd all be safer that way
:twisted: cashiers that look at and comment on your stuff, being real slow about it
:twisted: "friends" that can't be bothered to listen
and on and on ................
Luxembears:crackup: 
These are great!
My biggest pet peeve is bad manners. People who do not simply say, "Thankyou" ie: going through the drive through window at a fast food resturaunt and after I say "thank you" they reply " Yep." "Yep" is not a replacement for "You're welcome." Dang bad manners!
Second: going to my inlaws and not being acknowlegded when we enter the room...not even with eye contact. Sometimes I think they should be called outlaws....some of them anyway.
Starbucks coffee.....Kim, I am with you. I think you could chaulk the basement with that stuff. Wow...just too powerful for me. 
Sorry Shel.
This is fun!!!!
Some of my pet peeves have to be:
-People who drive right on your bumper, and stay there for the entire journey.
-People who drive too fast.
-People who drive too slow.
-Arrogant drivers/aggressive drivers.
-People who don't pick up their dog's mess - its their dog not mine!
-People who let their muddy dogs run up to you in the street and wipe themselves all over your jeans.
-Smoking areas in restaurants. Its like having a peeing area in a swimming pool!!!
-Noisy neighbours.
-Nosy neighbours.
-The sleeve length and leg length on most clothes is too short for me. Jackets and coats are particularly bad at having short arms - so I can only buy my jackets from one shop - and they don't even make clothes in a size 8, so all my clothes are long enough but too baggy!!!!! (ok I admit it - I know I am lucky to be tall and slim - but I can't get clothes that fit!!!)
-When you loose a needle whilst sewing sat on the sofa. You know you have to find it otherwise someone will stand or sit on it, but you really want to just pick up a new needle and carry on sewing!
-When your husband can't remember having had a conversation only 5miniutes after you finished it!!
-Call centres :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: I hate them!!!!
-Companies phoning up to try and sell you something. Why would I want new windows when my house was only built a year ago?????
-People coming to the door trying to sell you something.
And I'm only just getting started!!!! (hope I haven't offended anyone!!!!! 
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This is fun!!!!
Starbucks coffee.....Kim, I am with you. I think you could chaulk the basement with that stuff. Wow...just too powerful for me. Sorry Shel.
AARGH!
Actually, drinking Starbucks coffee makes me feel like a java wimp since we also have Peet's in town. If you think Starbucks is strong, don't try Peet's. That stuff is liquid mud.
Lynette... your B&B story is beyond sucky and rude. I'd complain, too. B&B's are supposed to be respites where you find peace and calm and have your every whim catered to and get thick, thirsty Egyptian cotton towels and bathrobes, and claw-foot tubs, and down comforters and feather beds, and scrumptiously delicious, hot, home-cooked breakfast, plus wine in the afternoon and crackers and cookies and a VERY pleasant host or hostess. And instead of that, what you were stuck with is that you couldn't find dinner to eat, for your entire stay, in the entire town? Yeesh. The least they could have done, given circumstances, was CHILL a little about the "trespass" in the kitchen. That note was beyond rude. Sending hugs your way! :hug:
