Pet Peeves

Bureaucratic dunderheadedness. For example, right after 9-11-01, national guard troops were guarding airports, but the regular security still ran the checkpoints. A soldier, after finishing his 6-week airport duty was flying home for R & R. He was in full gear. M-16, grenade bandolier, extra clips, 6 inch army issue survival knife, his wallet, keys, which included a pen knife he uses for opening mail. After the x-ray and wand, they told him they would have to confiscate the pen knife, as it was a "dangerous" weapon. Then they handed him back the M-16, the grenades, the extra clips, the 6 inch knife, etc.

Then, there's the psychotic people on the road, and I do mean that, medically. They will nearly cause an accident speeding around people. Do they have a medical emergency? Is the house on fire? Is the wife giving birth? No. They just have to be in front of every one else, where they  can slow back down to normal traffic.
 
I almost forgot. 6 weeks after 9-11-01, the INS sent out visa renewals to the terrrorists who crashed the planes. I sincerely hope that someone lost their job over that. 

I have a pet peeve related to this forum.  It hasn't been called i-dog in forever but people still call it that and still use the term "i-dogger". 

What's weirder is that not one new person has ever said, what the heck is i-dog?? 
 
Oh yes, a second one related to dogs, male dogs wearing bows in their fur/hair.

Good one Lori.
 
Mine would be waiting. That means waiting for anything. I have no patients.
 
Also people that park in front of the stores, right at the door. It says "NO PARKING" and yet they think because the passanger is running in it's ok.

I have lots, but one of the big ones for me is when drivers behind me honk their horns when I am waiting to turn left at a light. First of all I am focused and consentrating on the on coming traffic. Suddenly I hear a sharp horn blast and I immediately think that something serious is happening. It startles me! When I realize it is some idiot who thinks I am unable to judge for myself if it is safe to proceed, I am enraged! Quite often I will refuse to make the turn and force the guy behind me to wait for the next light.

I also hate people who have personal conversations on their cells while in a crowd of people. If it is short a to the point ie "I'm just checking out of the grocery store, let me call you back." that's fine. But I find it so rude to stand there discussing your loser date last night!

My pet peeve with dogs is people who take their dogs shopping with them. I happen to like dogs, but hey, a lot of people are afraid, have allergies and really aren't keen on using the same counter that Fluffy's butt was just on. Is it really necessary?

Waitresses/female clerks who call me sweetie/babe/honey etc.

Having "my space" invaded without invitation.

Relationship drama.

Incorrect grammar, misspelled words. Typos I can handle, but it grieves me to see so many misspelled words and sentences where the subject doesn't agree with the verb.

For instance, the opening question: "What is your pet peeves?"
No, I'm sorry, it's "What are you pet peeves?"

In this thread alone: "passanger" for passenger
"patients" for patience
"consentrating" for concentrating

In the forum "nueter" for neuter
"bread" for breed (that one bugged quite a few people, I think)
"genitilia" for genitalia
"viscuous" for vicious (that was quite funny!)

In life in general .........folks, please don't use an apostrophe when you want to talk about the plural of something. More than one dog is dogs. Right? Don't add an apostrophe if there is more than one of whatever it is you are talking about.

It makes me CRAZY to go by someone's house (notice, the house belongs to someone so that's why I put the apostrophe...oh and "that's" has an apostrophe because it is a contraction of 'that' and 'is') and see that they have a sign up with the family name on it like this:

The SMITH'S

It should be

The SMITHS

because that's who lives there.

Another one I see every day is a coffee hut that now sells "SANDWICHE'S". No, they don't. They sell sandwiches.

And for my final, but not the last or only, pet peeve with grammar and English:

The word "momentarily" has meant FOR a moment, not IN a moment, for hundreds of years. However in the last couple of decades it has been misused so many times to mean the latter, that now the stupid people who write some dictionaries have added that as an additional meaning. [:@]

Look, every time I get onto a plane I hear that we will be taking off "momentarily." Which to my mind means that it will take off for just a moment.....and then crash right back to earth? Not the thing I want to hear! [8|][]

It doesn't bother me one whit to talk to or type at people for whom English is a second language. That's a different story. But heavens to Betsy, most Americans are woefully inept when it comes to speaking and writing their own language. You folks with learning disorders, dyslexia and ADD, I give some slack. My ADD kid can read just about anything, but can't spell worth a darn. It's just the way his brain works. (And about its and it's: "it's" is the contraction of "it is." That's when you use the apostrophe. When you are speaking of something that belongs to something, such as "The dog licked its paw." Then you don't use the apostrophe. If it is possessive, then no apostrophe. Yes, it's an inconsistency in English.)

And don't even get me started on Americans' (plural possessive--see how I did that?) inadequacies as to global, or even local, geography! Yikes! [sm=eek.gif]

I really don't like it when I am reading something and the writer fails to capitalizes the species epithet for a species name or fails to underline/italisize it (i.e.) Homo Sapiens when it should be Homo sapiens.

I dislike people who drive like maniacs or speed like crazy.

I hate seeing litter all over the side of the road at the beginning of spring.

I really dislike the use of "internet slag" such as "u" intstead of "you" or "luv" instead of "love."

My major pet peeve right now, though, is this SUV craze combined with the constant whining of gas prices. Ninety percent of people who buy excessively large SUVs (Escalades, H2s, Yukon XLs, etc) have no need for them... I honestly can't see a need for them (not that there isn't one, but I can't see it). All I see is a gigantic, gas sucking, polluting machine driven by someone with way to much money that could be thrown to good use (perhaps they should have bought a hybrid instead?).

Oh yes, a second one related to dogs, male dogs wearing bows in their fur/hair.

 
Last summer my boss required we put a bow in every single dog's hair that came in- whether it be male or female. (this was when she was in her odd state). Her customers hated when she put a bow in their boy's hair. It's almost insulting. We joked about getting rainbow bows and putting it in their hair just to make her mad.
 
You are soo right about "i-dog" I haven't even thought about it. I am a creature of habit I suppose! LOL
 
My pet peaves:
-Drivers with a cell phone in one hand and eating a cheeseburger in the other, veering into your lane...
-People who cannot accept comprimise (I'll explain. My room-mate and I came from very different households. I came from a working mom who came home and took out dinner from the freezer and put it in the oven. My room-mate had a stay at home mom who cooked everything from scratch- she had an herb garden in the backyard. When it comes time for dinner, I always say "ehh- TV dinners when she wants to throw fresh veggies/herbs/meat in the crock pot.)
 
-Massive trucks that think that they are better than the sedans and hog the road, try to push you out of your lane, and park so their tires are inbetween 2 spaces so not ot hurt their precious baby. I HATE parking inbetween 2 cars or SUVs because I cannot see anywhere within 4 feet of space. If somebody is comming through, I wouldn't know...
 
Dog related (probably because I'm a groomer.) Excuses on why my dog is matted. My favorite one: stuck his head out the car window on the way over here and got matted or "he was out loose for a couple days and we just found him."
best one yet: "I make my 4 year old daughter brush my full coated shih tzu"
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When people have social conversations in the library right next to the sign that says "Quiet Study Area". [:@]

two of mine:
People who are waiting in a long line at the coffee shop and still don't know what they want when they get to the front of the line...
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I hate it when I'm walking in a mall or on the street and someone stops dead in their tracks in front of you....

Hhmm...my pet peeves:  there are too many to list so I suppose that makes me a cranky ol' broad.  Jeano I bet you must love the made up word "irregardless".  lol...Have you ever had to "axe someone a question"?  Ever gone to a "li-bary"?  And one that drives me insane:  "nu-cu- lar"   [:@][:@]  instead of "nuclear"   GGrrrr
How about "Where you at"?   "Oh no you did-int!!"
I don't mind internet slang, especially if I am in a hurry and trying to get all of my thoughts down before the 'thought train' de-rails.  Also, I am computer retarded and don't know how to italicize or underline to save my life.  No kidding. 
I loath rude sales/wait staff plus clerks and cashiers..and cell phone drivers are enough to send me into apoplexy.  Heavens I don't even know if I spelled that right.  Females spitting....ewwww! For some reason that is worse than males spitting.  Yes:  I am a sexist female. 
Belching, farting, very vulgar swearing, making out, super loud car radios, and littering (in public) all drive me insane.  I think this must be about 1/100th of my list of peeves.    Jules

Jean, if you haven't read Eats, Shoots and Leaves, you really should, but i'd be totally shocked if you haven't.

Mine are, well, the really big one I have is people who judge others based on a small snippet of their child's behavior. I suppose it's job related for me though. What I mean are those people who, see a child misbehaving, and automatically judge the parent as a horrible person. I'm not talking about people you may know whose children constantly misbehave, but maybe that kid who was on the floor screaming, as people walked by and gave his mother nasty glares, or the kid who races across the parking lot with no regard for the traffic. Maybe that child has a disability that is not obvious to those people who are giving the nasty looks, but those people giving the nasty looks would never do such a thing to a parent whose child had an obvious difference. But, after hearing the parents say how much it hurts them, and getting the nasty looks myself when I was out with a family, and the child did something a typical boy his age would know better about. Next time you're about to give someone a nasty look, think about that. Do you really know what is going on? Could there be more to the picture than what you see? And really, they are probably trying to do the best that they can in that situation, feel bad enough about it already, and you are not helping.

My other one is people who use medical terms incorrectly, or rather diagnosis incorrectly. It was done here, so I was reminded of it. As of the DSM-IV, it is ADHD, not ADD. ADHD-Hyperactive type, ADHD-Inattentive type, or ADHD-Combined type, and the best one of all, ADHD-NOS (not otherwise specified). Also, your child can not have PDD. That is the category. He or she has to have PDD-(something specific). There are others, but these are just the two that come to mind.

Boom cars.

My pet peeves are those darn cell phones! I hate when people come in the store then their phone rings and they talk on it the whole time they are in the store they only hang up with they are ready to cash out. I hate seeing them talking to the phone while driving or they start talking on the phone when they go order. There you are waiting behind them and they are just talking away. Hello people we lived life without a cellphone before they took off and you can live without one still.
 
I hate people that are ordering their stuff and just when the seem done the rest of their family comes up with him to place the rest of the order with them. Especially when it's a huge stinking line which this happen Mother's day.
 
I hate stupid people that say things such as, can I get a cheeseburger without cheese, are you open after reading our hours, they read what is in a cage yet still ask you what it is, and people ask you if your half closed or half open.
 
People that I don't know calling me honey, sugar, sweetheart, kiddo, babe, and etc.
 
Dog related pet peeves are people leaving their dog in the car, having the dog in the back of a pickup truck, dumping animals along side of the road, and idiots that allow their pet breed with any other breed. People that abuse their dog, let their animal run loose through out the whole neighborhood, and using your dog to fight.
 
My grooming pet peeves are stupid people excuses of the reason their dog is matted, owners that get their dog shaved down once a year when they need it so much more, and people that don't want to except their dog is biter. Just because your dog doesn't bite you doesn't mean us groomer's did something to it. It may just be the fact that you never touch the dog with a real brush and you don't have to clip it down.
 
Also when they let the poor dogs nails get so long that the nails are curling into the pad causing the poor animal not to be able to walk normal. When people want you to save the hair even though the poor dog is going to have to go through the pain of seperating every single matt.