Stupid Pet Peeve

[mrodgers]

My pet peeves are also driving and/or parking related, or discussions of driving related.

To start, Monday I walked out of the store in the morning and someone is parked next to me leaving me about 12 inches of space to open my door. I was well more than half tempted to try to move their car over with my car door. If I was still driving my beater, I might have.

Then Tuesday I pull into the same parking lot. There's a car perfectly centered over the white parking space line. I went in and as soon as I saw the lady at the counter, I figured it was her. When I walked out, sure enough, she's sitting in the car. I looked at her and waved and motioned to the spaces she was taking up. She immediately looked down ignoring me and started fiddling with her phone as I got in my car and left.

I have a lot of the same peeves on the driving part. Not using turn signals for turns. Not using them for lane changes. Stopping at the end of an entrance ramp instead of accelerating to merge.

I have a lot about talking about driving. A lot have to do with driving in inclement weather and blanket statements people say. A common one is, "nothing helps on ice." Yes, there are things you can do to help drive on ice. Driving a manual transmission and especially a manual in a true four wheel drive helps immensely on ice. I am on a lot of guy topic forums such as cars and garage related. Talking about cars always will happen with guys even if it's not a car related forum such as the bushcrafting or shaving forum (yes, there is a forum for wet shaving.) I mention how it is getting impossible to find a decent car because there are so few manual transmissions out there and I will always get people wanting to argue about why I would even want to bother with a manual these days since automatics shift much faster than I can now. Gee, if it was strictly about how fast it or I can shift between gears then by all means, there's no reason to have a manual. Manual transmission driving has nothing to do with how fast it shifts. It's about being in the proper gear at all times and not having a computer to weird stuff at an improper time which an automatic will never be and never do.

I have a coworker who wants to reinvent the wheel with everything he has to do for us. The guy I normally work with is out with surgery so this guy is doing some work for us. I tell him what we need, how we need it, and how we get it done. He's argued with me now for a week that it shouldn't be done this way and there's better ways do to it. I keep trying to tell him that this is how we do it, it is set in stone as it is in response to a problem that developed in the early days of supplying this customer, and we've been doing it this way to get these particular results for 15 years. If he changes any of that, the customer is no longer getting what they are expecting because our results that we are measuring is a correlation to what the customer needs and he will change that correlation should he change the way it is done. Well, he changed the way I wanted him to do the job and though he gets the same result on our end, it changed the result our customer gets and is wrong. Had he not argued and done it my way, the customer would have gotten what they were expecting. This guy drives me absolutely crazy and unfortunately shares a desk in an open office right next to me.

 

[camreesmom]

The gum smacking or popping annoys the heck out of me. I have a co-worker who I know does it intentionally just to bug me.

DH and I have 8 kids. When I was pregnant with #6 and #7, I would always get asked if I knew what caused that. Seriously? Uhmmmmm, yes, I definitely know and I'm not asking you to feed or clothe my children so I don't think it should bother you how many kids that we have. People would also say that they had a tv or a vcr/dvd player that we could borrow.

 

[EMom]

One that’s happening right now on this board, is the misuse of the word “invite/invites.” That’s a verb, not a noun. You don’t send or receive an invite, but an invitation. There is a perfectly good word to use when you wish to say you mailed invitations or wonder if invitations have been sent yet. When someone says they received an invite, it makes me cringe.

 

[china mom]

The use of expiry instead of expiration.

 

[maxiesmom]

I hate it when, while in a public restroom, someone has to take the stall right next to mine when we are the only 2 using the facilities. There should be a buffer zone, if the space is available. Found out this is a pet peeve of one of my co-workers too.

 

[L&Lfan]

I hate it when, while in a public restroom, someone has to take the stall right next to mine when we are the only 2 using the facilities. There should be a buffer zone, if the space is available. Found out this is a pet peeve of one of my co-workers too.

Similar to an empty cinema when the only other people take the seats right in front of or behind your row. Happens to us so often it's laughable.

 

[MIGrandma]

Similar to an empty cinema when the only other people take the seats right in front of or behind your row. Happens to us so often it's laughable.

This happened to me once, many years ago. I went to see "Pet Sematary" and was the only person in the theater (matinee) when a couple walked in and promptly sat down in front of me. The woman made eye contact and quickly looked away, so she knew I was sitting there. The guy sat directly in front of me, he must have been over 6' tall. I just sat there, fuming. At first I thought about moving, but then I decided I had been there first and even though I'm usually not at all a confrontational person I tapped him on the shoulder and said "could you move down just one seat so I could see the movie?" He acted very surprised, like he hadn't seen me sitting there, but said sure, and they did move down one and I smiled and said thank you. I couldn't do that to someone, sit right in front of them when the whole rest of the theater is totally empty.

I have many of the same driving pet peeves that have already been mentioned here. It's amazing how many stupid drivers there are out there.

But my biggest, most annoying pet peeve in the world is a barking dog. I don't mean a quick yap-yap, like if you're in someone's home and someone comes to the door and their dog yaps to "let them know someone's at the door." But constant yapping. 5 minutes and it starts to irritate me. 30-minutes and I'm ready to strangle the owner of the yapping dog. I never understand people who go camping and have a constantly barking dog. They probably are so used to the dog barking that it doesn't even bother them anymore.

 

[LilyWDW]

I hate it when, while in a public restroom, someone has to take the stall right next to mine when we are the only 2 using the facilities. There should be a buffer zone, if the space is available. Found out this is a pet peeve of one of my co-workers too.

The only time I break this "rule" is when my back/hip/leg are bothering me enough that I need the stall with bars. Otherwise I keep a space!

 

[Jaspers]

I've recently noticed how much it bothers me when people hit something or violently throw stuff around when they're frustrated. Stoooppp.

 

[ronandannette]

One that’s happening right now on this board, is the misuse of the word “invite/invites.” That’s a verb, not a noun. You don’t send or receive an invite, but an invitation. There is a perfectly good word to use when you wish to say you mailed invitations or wonder if invitations have been sent yet. When someone says they received an invite, it makes me cringe.

This distinction is so badly mangled here on the DIS, and so often, that I was actually beginning to question if I was the one who was wrong. Grammatical gas-lighting - the struggle is real!!

 

[gopher101]

When you are at the store in line and the person in line behind you just comes closer and closer. The last two times I was at the store, their cart was under the pin pad so I had to stand off to the side to pay.

 

[maxiesmom]

This distinction is so badly mangled here on the DIS, and so often, that I was actually beginning to question if I was the one who was wrong. Grammatical gas-lighting - the struggle is real!!

I think it is because people use it as shorthand, not that they don't get the difference.

 

[kimblebee]

This happened to me once, many years ago. I went to see "Pet Sematary" and was the only person in the theater (matinee) when a couple walked in and promptly sat down in front of me. The woman made eye contact and quickly looked away, so she knew I was sitting there. The guy sat directly in front of me, he must have been over 6' tall. I just sat there, fuming. At first I thought about moving, but then I decided I had been there first and even though I'm usually not at all a confrontational person I tapped him on the shoulder and said "could you move down just one seat so I could see the movie?" He acted very surprised, like he hadn't seen me sitting there, but said sure, and they did move down one and I smiled and said thank you. I couldn't do that to someone, sit right in front of them when the whole rest of the theater is totally empty.

I have many of the same driving pet peeves that have already been mentioned here. It's amazing how many stupid drivers there are out there.

But my biggest, most annoying pet peeve in the world is a barking dog. I don't mean a quick yap-yap, like if you're in someone's home and someone comes to the door and their dog yaps to "let them know someone's at the door." But constant yapping. 5 minutes and it starts to irritate me. 30-minutes and I'm ready to strangle the owner of the yapping dog. I never understand people who go camping and have a constantly barking dog. They probably are so used to the dog barking that it doesn't even bother them anymore.

I am so with you on the yappy days. I live in a side by side and the neighbours dog barks at everything that moves outside. It’s not a quick bark either. Once it’s revved up it doesn’t stop for 10-15 minutes. The dog is totally untrained and the neighbour thinks it’s cute. UGH

 

[Cubbiecakes]

I've recently noticed how much it bothers me when people hit something or violently throw stuff around when they're frustrated. Stoooppp.

Totally agree. It shows a complete lack of maturity... such people are violent children.

Hitting an object is only one step from hitting a person; I cut people like this out of my life... don’t need dangerous psychopathic children around me.

 

[Cubbiecakes]

D’oh, double post.

 

[Skywalker]

Similar to an empty cinema when the only other people take the seats right in front of or behind your row. Happens to us so often it's laughable.

In fairness, maybe people are like me and my cousin...he is gone now but we had a tradition of going to the movies and he had his favourite spot and we always sat in that same spot no matter what. If we are too close for your comfort, sorry, but we are sitting where we enjoy sitting.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

In fairness, maybe people are like me and my cousin...he is gone now but we had a tradition of going to the movies and he had his favourite spot and we always sat in that same spot no matter what. If we are too close for your comfort, sorry, but we are sitting where we enjoy sitting.

Most of the theaters around me have gone to reserved seating. As long as you're sitting where your reserved seat is I wouldn't mind. We like the middle of the row and usually the back few rows (especially in the big theaters where there is a bathroom closer by than going down the steps and walking to the bathroom) so it's often that there people that are sitting right by us (because they want the middle area too) or right below us or behind us (also because they wanted the middle row and in the back). I just ask that you don't kick my seat if you're behind me

 

[Anastasi]

One that’s happening right now on this board, is the misuse of the word “invite/invites.” That’s a verb, not a noun. You don’t send or receive an invite, but an invitation. There is a perfectly good word to use when you wish to say you mailed invitations or wonder if invitations have been sent yet. When someone says they received an invite, it makes me cringe.

Merriam-Webster defines invite as both a verb and noun. And it is not a recent thing, going back to the 1700s.

So, people sending invites are correct.

From Merriam-Webster:

Is invite really a noun?
Yes. Some people feel strongly that the role of invite should be restricted to that of verb, but the English language changes and grows according to its own peculiar whims, and not those of people who write angry letters to dictionaries. The process whereby a word changes its part of speech is called functional shift, and there are tens of thousands of words which have done this. Some of them just bother people more than others, and invite (along with gift and friend, which have changed in the opposite direction) is one that attracts considerable opprobrium.

 

[L&Lfan]

In fairness, maybe people are like me and my cousin...he is gone now but we had a tradition of going to the movies and he had his favourite spot and we always sat in that same spot no matter what. If we are too close for your comfort, sorry, but we are sitting where we enjoy sitting.

I can understand your point of view, but even if it were my favorite seat, if the theater is otherwise empty I would at least skip a row either in front of or behind the people already sitting there.

 

[cluvsdisney]

When you are at the store in line and the person in line behind you just comes closer and closer. The last two times I was at the store, their cart was under the pin pad so I had to stand off to the side to pay.

I hate that. If they are blocking the pad, I just ask them to move back. Most of the time, they are just oblivious.

Last month, I was waiting to board a plane and the woman behind me was so close that my elbow touched her when I adjusted my purse on my shoulder. I have short arms so she was 4-5 inches behind me. I was about to say something but then she got off the line.