What's your Biggest Pet-Peeves?

[firstadopter]

What's your Biggest Pet-Peeves? What annoys you the most?

- people who straddle multiple lines at the drug store

- people who drive right on your bumper and flash you even though you're going fast

more to come..

[TheAngryIntern]

people who don't know how to drive, period.

My biggest driving pet peeve is people who change lanes without signalling....they just cut right in front of you. In most states that's considered an illegal lane change, but even if it is legal, it's still a matter of common courtesy to your fellow drivers.

Other peeves: Chicks who say they want one thing, but really want the opposite of that.

People who pay for <$20 worth of merchandise with a credit card

i guess that's all i can think of for now.....

[firstadopter]

hehe.. i use my credit card all the time for stuff $10-20. The only reason is I get cash back 5% from my credit card for grocery and drug store purchases.

Another pet-peeve:

-people honking at you to make an illegal turn at the intersection, even though it's a red light

[firstadopter]

two words. Michael Moore.

[idx]

Ugh. Far too much frustration with driving. At least its past April so some of the freaking snowbirds have left, but now its vacation time. (I live very close to Orlando) Between the old people, tourists and jerks its quite an adventure in not killing someone everyday. I end up taking as many po-dunk backroads as I can to avoid traffic. (...and the curves with my TSX aren't bad either :D )

Peeve of the day: user at work who emails everyone in the dept a 5.8MB stinking flyer (bloated word doc) to advertise some stupid upcoming conference. She has to make a graphic-filled flyer for EVERYTHING. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The flyer itself was only ~10 lines of text. ahhhhhhh!

Pegged the T1 for 30 minutes so around 5 sites were dead. So we firmly suggested she not do this again (she's been warned more than once for this - I suggested we give a written warning... but who am I?) and limited her attachment size.


Peev of the year: Unintelligible phone support for IBM that they've outsourced to India. In years past I only called them maybe 4 times a year. Now with our frequent drive failures I seem to be calling every 3 weeks. For the life of me I can't understand a damn word they say. I just get through the call so I can be farmed out to the local CE's or familiar people in the RISC group.


...although none of that matters when I know my 2001FP will be on its way soon. :D

[firstadopter]

Opening any cheap electronic acessories these days requires cutting up your finger with cheap impossible to open plastic molding covering.

[firstadopter]

Paper cuts! Cuz I just got one. Ouch!

[EzyRider]

Me and a buddy actually keep written lists of this type of stuff. Highlights of mine are:

- Plastic utensils
- Conversational High-Fives: High-fiving at any time other than when one is actively playing a sport
- Landmines
- Commercials where traditional holiday songs are used with the lyrics changed to hawk a product (it's been at least 15 years, and I still can't sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" without using the words from the TV ad for the less than stellar "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin
- Canker sores
- Slow walkers (malls, sidewalks, etc.). As a New Yorker, this usually leads me to condemn tourists in general (for many more reasons than their insufferable slow-walking).

I'm really nowhere near as miserable as this list might make me sound. I'm actually a very happy, content person.

[firstadopter]

- Conversational High-Fives: High-fiving at any time other than when one is actively playing a sport


I hate those too. Lol. So funny, high fiving is NOT for conversations.

[EzyRider]

- People who say that rainy weather at a wedding is good luck. As if a nice day implies an ugly divorce down the road?

[sHAZBOT!]

mostly driving related. Especially on two lane highway like interstate 5 through the cali desert when some (usually chick) bonehead either uses the fast lane to see how accuarately they can match the speed of the car in the slow lane next to them, and feigns ignorance when your flashing your headlights for them to pull over so you can pass!
Also, when some jerk has an hour of clear lane to change into your lane ahead of you but chooses to change only when you have to slam the brakes to avoid hitting them!

bucking fastards!