Random peeves

[RangerWickett]

I hate it when you yawn so hard that your eyes tear up. I especially hate it when it happens at work right before a patron comes to ask you a question. They get all uncomfortable when they see what appears to be a grown man crying at his desk.

In a related note, I also hate that my friend Julian refuses to accept "I've got work at 8 in the morning" as a valid reason for me to stop playing Magic when it's nearly midnight. In particular, I think his favorite phrase in the world is "sleep is for the weak."

 

[LightPhoenix]

My biggest peeve is people eating with their mouth open. Especially when I'm tired.

Wait, no. My biggest is people chewing gum with mouth open, like it's cud. Especially over the phone.

 

[Harmon]

Twisted cords- it rattles my cage for some reason.

Smoking- the smell, and the fact that almost every smoker seems to have some kind of arrogence about it.

Tail gaters- its probably the one thing that people could do (aside from slowing down) that would save lives.

The number one pet peeve I have is-
Rubber Necking- slowing down to see an accident, slowing down to look at the worst day of someone's life for your own morbid curiosity. The ones that bug me the most are the people that cuss the traffic then as they get to the accident they slow down to look, then speed away.

Just my top few pet peeves

 

[jaerdaph]

My biggest pet peeve involves people who talk on their cell phones while walking along a busy street and then just stop as if they are the only ones on the sidewalk or, more annoyingly, the subway entrance stairs.

I'm just waiting for it to happen when I'm getting off an escalator so I have an excuse to plow someone over.

 

[Piratecat]

Tail gaters- its probably the one thing that people could do (aside from slowing down) that would save lives.

I honestly thought you were referring to some sort of weird alligator at first.

It's been a long week.

I hate when people misuse apostrophes. I hate... dang. You know, I can't think of anything else.

 

[Mycanid]

Well ... I guess a have a few of them.

One of the biggest is kinda hard to describe, but it is people who live by "opinions" - not necessarily on a mental level, of course - that's not so bad.

The worst is when it is on an emotional level. Where people insist on doing things their way, even though it is irrational and doesn't make sense and they know they are being rude or hurtful (woe unto the poor soul who gets in their way), and they FORCE everyone else to adjust to their irrational idiosyncracies.

Of course this is strongest when there are "aesthetic experiences" somehow associated with those things they cling too most intensely. If you criticize any part of thier strangeness you criticize their "launch pad" from which they experienced something very deep or precious or something they personally identify themselves with.

Yes, yes, yes. All of us do this to a certain degree. The difference is the willingness to be able to bend (not capitulate) for other people's needs rather than one's own wants/whims. This is perfectly possible and not at all painful to do - unless you take pleasure in being a pain.

 

[Dog Moon]

I am annoyed by people who don't at the least try to use proper grammer/spelling/punctuation. Talking with some of my friends on AIM is extremely annoying.

Annoying roommates who don't understand the concept of closing and locking the door. Sometimes it's closed, but not locked, other times it's locked but not closed [and by not closed I mean that the door is pushed almost shut, but there is no click as the door slides into place].

When friends on AIM don't bother to say 'later' but just disappear. Then when I try to say something, I only then realize that they're gone.

That's about all I can think of now. Can I just say stupid moronic people in general; they annoy me.

 

[Ferret]

I don't think of any real peeves...Most things I'd just blow off.

 

[ssampier]

Slow drivers (i.e. 25 mi in 40 mi zone). Also, people that tailgate when I'm driving the speed-limit. Contradictory, I know.

Well ... I guess a have a few of them.

One of the biggest is kinda hard to describe, but it is people who live by "opinions" - not necessarily on a mental level, of course - that's not so bad.

Interesting. Would you mind giving an example?

 

[Chimera]

I drive a 20,000 pound armored vehicle around our downtown all day.

I just don't get how people can continually zip around me, get in front of me and hit their brakes. If we hit you, it's going to ruin a lot more than your day.

"Are you brain damaged??? Well you will be if this truck hits you!"


I also can't understand these complete fart-brains who walk in front of me while I'm carrying large amounts of money and a gun, and then expect me to just stop and mill about in a crowd because they're BRAIN DAMAGED MORONS!

The ones who yell at me when I push past them (while saying "excuse me") are even better. I have a gun. I'm carrying someone elses money. I don't stand around in crowds, folks.


My favorite was the potato chip delivery guy who yelled at me for parking in a handicap spot in front of City Hall. I patted my gun and said "When they let me carry a gun into a court house, they let me park wherever I want".


Or yesterday. 90 degrees and sunny. Big metal box truck, sitting on top of a big diesel that runs all day long (yeah, it gets hot). Snippy little bleep tells me to shut off my engine because the fumes bothered her as she walked past.

Yeah. You sit in that box without any A/C. Just hold this steak while you do it, please.