:sidesplt: You funny kind of...

My pet peeve lately is how complete strangers are so interested in how far along I am, if its a boy/girl, how much I have gained, what the name is going to be, and if my feet are swollen. I really am tired of answering questions. The same questions. All the time. I'm glad nobody has tried to touch my belly yet. That happened my last pregnancy.

Kind of??? You know that was funny!

Amen!! I went to the store yesterday, the lady behind me had to stand right on top of me. Then that wasn't good enough- had to put all of her stuff and the belt even though there wasn't room and couldn't be put out to wait a moment.
Then I got done paying, put my receipt in my purse and of course she hit me with her cart! I turned around and yelled excuse me! I am sure she thought I was the rude one! Ugg!

Okay, today random people have been pushing my pet peeve buttons all day. Here are just a few things that people have done to irritate me today.

1. Micro managing.

2. Guys that wear their pants to their knees and the waist band around the middle part of their butt. I always have the urge to either pants them or give them a really bad wedgie.

3. Being hit on by random men. I was in the gas station today and some guy walked past and said "Wuzzup shawty?!" Even if I was single, that is not the way to get me to be interested.

I can't handle stupidity.
I can't handle people with no common sense.
People who wear sandals or flip flops and have ashy feet( don't put foot lotion or just regular lotion)
People who wear sandals/flip flops and have fungus on their toes.
Tacky people
people who leave their purses on the bathroom floor. ewwww!!
People who park right in front of my house when they are visiting the neighbors. why don't they park in front of the neighbor's house!! or driveway?
People who think i don't speak English.

Hah! That is so me... I hate hate hate when people are in my little "bubble"

Dang ~ that was a great list! I will just add those to my ever growing list!

I'll give it to you ~ it was funny!

This thread is so funny! Here are a few of mine:

1. When people start telling you something and then suddenly remember they shouldn't be saying anything and say, 'Oh, forget it', or 'It doesn't matter' I can't forget it now you've started - TELL ME!! (I have a friend who always does this)

2. People who ask if both my skin kids are mine, or if they have the same dad because one is very fair and blue-eyed and the other is darker-skinned with brown eyes....I always want to yell: 'Not that it's any of your business, but YES:mad:

3. When people say, 'I ain't done nothing' ......so you have done something then?:rolleyes:

4. People who finish every sentence with, 'D'you know what I mean?'

5. People who insist on telling you how much they paid for everything.

6. When my husband drinks out of the milk/juice carton (or worse - finishes it and puts the empty carton back in th fridge (I fear that one day I might snap and kill him)

7. My husband moaning if he has no clean socks/boxers /t-shirts, even though the dirty ones are in a pile where he left them.....an inch away from the laundry basket (I'm sure he thinks the housework fairies come and do everything)

8. Putting a meal in front of my daughter that she has happily eaten a thousand times in the past but today she, 'doesn't like it'.

9. When friends/family members say I don't have a 'proper job':mad: even though I'm earning decent money writing children's books, not to mention looking after two kids, three dogs, a husband and a house!!!!!!!

10. The fact that I have so many pet peeves!:D

Phew, it feels so good to get all that off my chest! xxx

One habit of others that is truly annoying is the way some chew gum...snapping, cracking, with mouth open, jaw sloshing from side to side as the gum moves from one part of the mouth to another.
It is totally gross to watch and hear.
It just grates on my nerves.

Thanks, the venting helped until I see another person chewing that way.

1. People who leave a toilet seat in the "up" position.
2. Rude people
3. Telephone solicitors
4. People who leave their shopping baskets in the middle of aisle.
5. People who call me and then put me on hold so they can answer another call, grrrrr! :mad:
6. bad customer service.
7. Rushing to make an appointment on time, get there risking your life in busy rush hour traffic, only to have to sit in the waiting room for 15 min or longer.

I second those!

Way too many to list, but I will start with "all of the above". Sure there might be a couple that don't drive me insane, but not many.
I have to add to it *People that have so many pet peeves that there is basically nothing you can do that WON'T irritate them. Which basically makes me a hypocrite. :D

I think we Americans (and some of us non :) ) kinda get on a pedestal a little and let everything bother us about everyone else. I mean, if it really bothers us when someone thinks they are better than us or right about everything, wouldn't that be a little prideful too? I go back and forth with myself all the time about it, and since I am always right, it's really hard to find a winner in that one. I think I would be a much happier person if everyone didn't piss me off so much...of if I just didn't let them. ;)

I remember when.......The only phone was attached to the kitchen wall. We even had to wait until we got home to call someone! (imagine that). And we even didn't have a answer machine! OMG!

I will say that I agree with each and every pet peeve!
The only other one I can think of right now is the person who ends each and every sentence in a question.
Like
How are you! is ok but
We went to the movies? And we saw the movie terminator? And the robot was Arnold?......
Get what I mean. That is so annoying!

Keylargolady - I remember well....tethered to a cord! OH MY! :eek:

This is a great thread! I have enjoyed reading it. :)

Or call waiting, caller I.D, three way.... and it was pulse dialing

I didn't read everyone else's yet but mine are ...
1. when I record a tv show on DVR the last part is always cut off ... grrrrr
2. people who are talking to me on the phone while having a conversation with someone else in the house, yelling at dogs, or eating. grrrrr

OK.... in order

#1 People that walk into a building and stop! HELLO! there are people trying to enter behind you, this happens to me daily at the grocery store, bank, really anywhere I go. And it is the worst coming off of the escalator! I never had a problem with this when I lived in Minnesota, so it must be a Texas thing!!!!! I feel like I want to wear full LaCrosse gear and barrel my way everywhere I go!

#2 Whistling. Just don't do it. You dont sound ANYTHING like what you are trying to duplicate!

#3 Weakness. I come from a strong mother and am a tough cookie, don't cry baby to me, ask for help I will help you but complaining will get you nowhere fast with me! I'm here to listen and offer advise but if you are not willing to do the work you wont get any thing accomplished.


That's pretty much it, for the most part I am an easy going person and can get along with just about everyone! Not a whole lot bothers me!

People who are waiting to speak rather than listening to what I'm saying.
People who can't mind their own business.
People who drag me into their drama for no reason.
The flies that are infiltrating my house this past two weeks! :mad:
When someone practically "races" you to a line in a store to get a head of you.
People who do the above when you have 2 items and they have a ton! :mad:
People who squeeze their cars down the inside of me when I'm waiting to turn when there is clearly not enough room and then glare at me because it was hard to get past! Duh, it's illegal!
People who leave their shopping cart in the space next to them rather than taking it back so I nearly drive into it.
People who just don't bother to take them back at all and more so when it's raining and then I can't find a dry one to sit Amelia in!
People who comment on how small Amelia is for her age... I'm aware of this. :rolleyes:
People who own shops and are speaking in English till I walk in and then change mid sentence to their own language! WTH, did you just start talking about me?


I hate that too. :mad:

Haha, I hate people that do that as well...

:mad::mad::mad::mad: Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one. Being from Nottingham I hear "D'you know what I mean?" a LOT! Omg, makes me want to scream!


:lol2:

Okay sorry I am guilty of #3. I'd been saying it in my head as "You-Neee".

In the words of Sir Alan Sugar, with whom I wholeheartedly agree:
I don't like liars, I don't like cheats, I don't like bulls**tters, I don't like schmoozers and I don't like arse-lickers."

Someone almost killed my husband over #2 once. They were regular headlights but the truck had off road suspension so it sat high. A guy on the freeway pulled a gun on him and said he didn't like his headlights. I was home with our new born baby.

Here's a small list:

1. When people who are educated say "I don't got no" It's I don't have any.
2. When people talk on their cell phone loud enough that everyone can hear...We don't care!
3. When people go to dinner with me and talk on their cell phone at the table or leave me alone while they go talk on the phone. Even if it's business I don't like it.
4. Chewing with mouth open/lip smacking.
5. Gum popping/smacking! UGH!
6. When I wait my turn at a 4 way stop only to almost get hit when someone else treats it as a stop light and follows the car in front of them through the intersection without stopping for their turn.
7. Foreign people who ignore you in a store when you say excuse me. This happened Saturday again, a man, his wife and two kids with a cart in Sam's Club. Hubby wanted to buy a tv so we were looking and they were on an isle hubby went down. I tried to follow him with the cart and they wouldn't move to the side to let me through. I said excuse me THREE times, I saw a space between the husbands back and their cart so I went for it. Of course just then the man stepped back into my cart. I heard the kids say I hit him with my cart and him say yes she hit me with her cart. So I know they can hear, understand and speak english!

Okay venting over....sorry.

Oh my goodness! How terrible. Did the guy get arrested?

I wouldn't say they bother me THAT much. That's not so much a pet peeve as a pet psychosis.

Ok these are mine in no particular order.
1.People who chew with their mouth open.
2. People that come into a store with dirty faced kids that have snot encrusted noses and the only clean part of their face is from the streaks of tears.
3. People that let their kids curse at them.
4. Stinky people.
5. When you open a door for someone and they don’t say thank you.
6. People who eat the produce in the store before paying for it.
7. People that let their kids run wild in stores.

1. People that insist on asking how much you paid for everything. I am going to Europe now and everyone keeps asking how much my trip cost ughh!!
2. People that say "Oh your yorkie is not a teacup"
3. The word "swagga"
4. People that stare into your car at traffic lights.
5. People that agree with everything you say and don't have their own opinions.
6. People that talk with bluetooth head pieces (one time I thought a lady was trying to have a conversation with me so I was replying, until I realized she was on the phone)
7. People that automatically assume that all Hispanics must have dark complexions. I have pretty fair skin with light eyes, so no one every believes I am Hispanic.
8. I agree with the race card, sometimes I think the minorities are treated better than anyone.
9. People that ask "Can I ask you a question?"
10. Leaving the tooth paste uncovered
11. Scratching the car roof
12. People that can not control their children/ take them to nice restaurants.
13. People that treat me like I am 12.
14. When people at stores open a box to check its contents and then grab a new closed box and leave the one they opened there.
15. Poor Hygiene
16. People that have no drive/ motivation
17. People that complain too much about their problems, everyone knows that person that always seems to have something wrong going on in their life. We all have problems we just deal with them.
18. When people open the door with out knocking, if I closed my bedroom door it is for a reason.

That its for now, don't want to sound too crazy haha

Yes he did, this was in the day before cell phones. Hubby pulled off the freeway and went to a Circle K (Phoenix, AZ) and called the police. They were close and showed up right away. As they were taking the report from hubby the guy who pulled the gun on him pulled into the parking lot to buy something.

#14 Sooooo the closed box is promised to have what they thought the box they opened might not have had? lol

#12 Yep, I left my kids home so I could have a nice quiet dinner......

Might as well add the "you know" comment. My brother finishes everything with "You know" and I finish things with "I know" even if I don't. So between the two of us I guess we know it all! lol It's just a bad habit we really don't know sh*t. ROFL