Let's face it: perpetual negativity (as a lifestyle or habit) is about as appealing as garlic breath, northern MN in mosquito season - or a headless, maggot-infested ground squirrel. Nevertheless, we're all prone to have bouts with it and, I imagine, I am not the only one with a list of random peeves. You can learn a lot about someone by getting to know their likes. But get to know their peeves? You've got'em nailed. Here's a sampling from my peeves list:- Misuse of possessive apostrophes.
- Phone calls during The Office.
- Receipt not printed at the self-serve credit card gas pump.
- Most meal etiquette.
- Spiritualized church lingo or 'buzz' concepts.
- Rules for the sake of rules.
- Hard Jr. Mints (there's a few in every box).
- Hair trends.
- Excessive lawn ornaments.
- Mic stands.
- Business buzz-words. (Only until I start using them).
- Drippy, almost-empty laundry detergent containers.
- Clowns.
- No straw served with root beer.
- Chain emails attempting to emotionally manipulate forwarding.
- Explanation of the use of "therefore" in scripture. (Horse: DEAD!!)
- Drops left on toilet seats.
- The phrase: "lighten up".
- School/team/company spirit displayed via logo'ed apparel.
- Over-used movie or pop-culture references.
- The pretense of concert encores.
Now that we're all good and offended... Come on, let's hear it; what's at the top of your peeves list? (Be nice though - no one's in a fight)!
23 comments:
Yep, no one's fighting anymore-and it is so nice. As for my Peeves?
#1.When people leave the shower pullup thing up when they get out of the shower- and when you get in and turn on the water you get blasted by cold water from above.
#2. When complete strangers ask me if I am breastfeeding my baby- in the checkout lane.
#3. Hubby insists on leaving his toothbrush on the bathroom counter after every use- He knows good and well that it goes in the cup inside the mirror.
1) when people don't clear the microwave after they stopped it in the middle, and then I can't read the time.
2) Repetetive, tiny obnoxious noises (someone tapping a pencil, a watch ticking, oven beeping...)
3) ALARM CLOCKS!! They make me angry every morning...but I can't get up without one.
A. The person walking in front of me stops.
B. When I ask my lovely wife if she would like a coke, she says no, I buy one for myself, and then shes asks me for a drink.
C. Debating/discussing a topic with someone who doesn't have their facts straight but insists they do.
4. Computer users with a know it all ego and they really don't know what they don't know.
These are all pretty silly - I should just lighten up!
I'm with you on the apostrophes, the therefore, and encores.
I can't think of anything Peeves of Hogwarts did to annoy Filch, but it's a wicked long list.
1) People who drive with those 'driving lights' on. They are more than annoying.
2) Ditto for parking lights/marker lights; they indicate that you are parked...
3) trying to walk through the hallway after service when everyone picks a spot in the middle to stand and chat.
4) Anyone with a sense of entitlement
5) Store employees that consider customers to be an interruption of their day.
6) People who whistle, honk, or yell to get your attention.
7) Those who act as though it is incumbent upon me to respond to their whimsical attitudes
8) when people who make lists start with letters and end in numbers...
Cheryls' (She Who Must Be Obeyed) peeve(s)
A) When Swampy's dirty clothes make it just in front of the laundry hamper.
1)Complainers!
Just kidding. Being a P, it's nice not to have to deal with any of this stuff.
Just kidding again!
2) Gas price jumps. The big 3 killed my baby -
3) See Swampy-rah's #5
4) See Pat's letter B
5) When restaurants that serve Pepsi switch to Coke (you know who you are, Subway . . .)
6) My own inability to be punctual
7) The shameless product placement in Heroes
8) The cultural vacuum of pop/rock music
9) When someone doesn't respond to my comment about their comment about my comment about their comment about my blog on their blog!
10) Getting decapitated
1) Christmas lights left on all year round.
2) Receipts printing at the self serve pump when I didn't request one. (paperwork clutter!)
3)Clutter.
4)Sappy cheesy chain emails forwarded to everyone that person knows. (Sorry to offend!)And yes, I'm with you on the guilt tripping, too...bad luck if I don't forward in the next 60 seconds! :)
5) Supposably
You crack me up, V!
Ooh! "Supposably" - THAT is a good one!
Okay - SORRY Pat (but mostly Ed); I AM the wife who does 'B'. Always thought it was kind of romantic... :-)
ED: Getting decapitated?!? (I'm commenting about your comment in a comment about your comment on my blog - to make up for stealing your Coke).
At first I thought I didn't have any (being pretty mellow and all), but here are some (thanks to some of the above comments for reminding me of what bugs me):
1) People (often co-workers) who can't see the forest for the trees (similar to V's "Rules for the sake of rules.").
2) How did etcetera become exetera?
3) Feeling patronized by people.
4) Overuse of speakerphone by co-workers in adjoining offices.
5) Husband who leaves bags of chips or boxes of crackers lying around when there are only three tiny broken pieces left (feel free to just finish the bag or toss the bit that's left).
1. Public bathroom etiquette- empty tp rolls, chatting on cell phs, drips, feet on my side of the wall etc.
2. Dishes in the sink at bed time.
3. Other drivers who don't signal or change lanes w/o looking, go to slow (ya, don't have speed but at least go the speed limit)
Farf
Wow, Farf, feet on your side of the bathroom stall? You didn't happen to be in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport bathroom next to a U.S. Senator, did you?
Ed, decapitation? What are you, Mary Queen of Scots? You know I love it.
..or defenestration; I hate being thrown out the window!
and the hyper-security packaging on DVDs; Who, exactly is slipping DVDs out the side of their boxes so chronically that consumers have to get through 1 layer of shrinkwrap and 3 sticky-seals?
also, the escalating public obsession with a stray germ that has made anti-bacterial hand-soup and hand-soap and on the wall in so many places it's become dogma.
After thinking about my peeves a bit more, I decided to change my list.
1. My children's art work on their freshly painted bedroom walls.
2. Laundry.
3. When a good book ends the wrong way.
4. When Michael doesn't want to share his coke with. I don't want a whole coke....I just want a sip.
5. Whhiiiiiiinnnnning.
6. When people use the word bucks instead of dollars. Really? It cost 50 bucks. Better get hunting.
truman's peeves: when my brother gets all the computer time, when my mom washes my hair, applesauce instead of pinapple chunks in my lunch, messing up on my art, and loud school buses. that's all!
People putting the toilet paper roll in the wrong way. What are people thinking?!
1)leaving a restroom without washing hands
2)when our dog gobbles up rabbit and deer droppings and comes in, starts gagging and upchucks on our carpet
3)when clothes from the dryer gets dumped into a laundry basket and left
4)a co-worker who pretends to be working
5)when a dentist tells you need a root canal where you just had a new $800 crown put in
6)rushing to get to a doctor appt.on time only to sit in the waiting room for 30 min...
7)slumberland
8)trying to reach customer service and having to talk to a computer
9)deer who think we planted our gardens for them
10) supposably
apostrophe's
fustrated
supposably
exetera
expresso
Okay Vond - you may have just opened a can of worms - I have LOTS of pet peeves, and I fear posting them may cause some to call my faith into question..
Okay, just a few:
1.) When people drive down the freeway with their turn signals on with NO intention of changing lanes
2.) phone calls at bad hours of the day - i.e. - before 9 a.m., during the dinner hour (5-6 p.m.), after 9 p.m. (used to be 10 p.m., but I'm getting old)
3.) bad breath
4.) people who make obnoxious mouth noises either while chewing food or gum
5.) Loud noises that seem unecessary
6.) Poor memory recall of important details
okay...that's all I can do for now
By the way, I LOVE TeenV!! I think she has a friend somewhere called TeenM, who also has LARGE bangs, and a beautiful Guess sweatshirt with bright, fluorescent lettering!! Like, TOTALLY!
Dang, most of my taste in music consists of loud noises that seem unnecessary . . .
1. a cereal bowl that has milk and cereal left in it...sitting on my counter
2. people who chew with their mouths open...especially crunchy stuff
3. socks in the dirty laundry pile that are crumpled...who do they think wants to touch that?
4. older people who bud in front of me when I'm in line...do you see this two year old on my hip?
5.the smell of fish in my garage, on my family's clothes, in my nostrils...
I'll stop..there's so many...I'm not proud.
Oh wait...I forgot the biggest one...people who talk and talk and talk and don't breathe in between sentences. The kind of one sided conversation and you just don't know when they are going to stop...it makes me nauteous. I'm serious. Again...not proud.
I think I blogged about this once...
Top of my list?
Comments on what I'm eating.
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