Pet Peeves

ORIGINAL: griffinej5

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

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.

When my son was diagnosed 20 years ago there were two diagnoses on the books, yes, the DSM-III, I believe it was at the time. It was ADHD, and ADD (ADD without the hyperactivity). That's all.

I hear your gripe and I have lived that story. My son still remembers me sitting on him on a streetcorner in LA so he wouldn't run out into the traffic. He said he would have if I hadn't. He was that willful. My son is one of the most ADHD kids you'd ever meet. Shopping was a nightmare. Often I'd just leave the cart with the groceries in it and go home, defeated, rather than endure one more ignorant jerk telling me I didn't beat my child enough. [:@]He's much better now, but I wish he'd get some real medication, and not use nicotine (cigarettes). []

Eats, Shoots and Leaves, yes! I should check it out of the library. I've read it, I know I have, but it's been a while. Thanks for reminding me.[]

Hey Lori?  If you read through all the official stuff on the pages you WILL see the word idog. 
 
OK, my pet peeves, and bear in mind that I was awakened by a LOUD crack of thunder that sounded like an explosion at 5 AM and haven't had enough coffee yet to feel human.....
 
House or leash or crate BREAKING.  Not training, breaking.  The word bugs me and I've seen it a couple times on the forum recently.  I don't wanna BREAK my dogs, I want to TRAIN them.
 
Cell phones....get off the danged phone and DRIVE.  Get off the danged phone and ANSWER the cashiers question so she can finish your order and get to mine....and they are actually only a manifistation of the general RUDENESS and self-centeredness that seems to be running rampant here lately.
 
The butchering of the English language  particularly by people who grew up with it!  There, their, they're.......are NOT interchangable, nor are our and are or to, too and two.  Maybe it's because I'm older, but when I see misuse of the words, I automatically think "uneducated" or "doesn't give a rats rear".  I'm the worlds WORST speller, and I don't hold misspellings against ANYONE....but the misuse of words bugs me.....
 
Please DON'T get me started on people who either deliberately or through ignorance abuse their animals.  The forum isn't BIG enough for all I have to say on that subject....and how about the parents who "correct" their kids by screaming and swearing at them and have no problem at all with backhanding them even in public?
 
I'd better go get myself more coffee before I tick off everyone here! []

have no problem at all with backhanding them even in public

 
When I was an infant and toddler, my mother would backhand me. One time, in a store, she slapped at just the right angle and drew blood from my lip. Then, she felt really bad, holding onto a screaming, bleeding baby. The last time she hit me in the face was when I was 16. I was giggling at the dinner table. Our 3rd stepfather reminded me of Garfield the Cat at that moment but I couldn't very well say that. He was an ex-marine who could send you across the room with one punch. He once rescued a woman and her children from a carjacking with those powerhouse blows. Anyway, she smacked me a good one. My face stung a little bit but her hand (arthritic) hurt for 3 days. She didn't hit me again. Having a head tougher than structural steel has advantages.
 

People who do not use their turn signals when turning.
Folks who cannot spell or pronounce words correctly.
People who put their dogs in the back of a pickup truck.
I hate it when people call me hon, "sug" or sweetie, if I do not know them.
Cashiers talking on their cell phones when they are supposed to be checking my purchases out. Plus when they do not even say hello or anything!
Telemarketers!
Folks at the park that will not put a leash on their dogs or clean up their poop.
 
Oh my I could go on and on! This is just a few. LOL

People that use (in my work world) the phrase "hot water heater". It is a water heater. If the water was hot, you wouldn't need a heater.
 
Then there are the guys that refer to a pulley as a shiv. That is a mispronunciation of sheave, which is a mispronuciation of sheath, a metal roller surrounding a steel dowel over which you can roll something, such as wire.
 
Chain fall, which is actually a manual chain-driven hoist. I have one that lifts 1 ton and use it to lift transformers and 1,000 lb switchgear. Also, in our trade, tools are often called a brand name, rather than the technical name. Groove joint pliers are called Channel Locks, which is a brand name. Lineman pliers are called Kleins, from the brand name Klein. Or Nines, because that is the standard size in inches that we use. Dikes, for diagonal wire cutters. Top-out, when the dry roof or final floor of a building is done. To where is it going out? Why not just say structural finish?
 
But the title I wear proudly as the electrician who installs boxes and pipe in masonry, such as block or brick is "blockhead."
 

[quotePeople that use (in my work world) the phrase "hot water heater". It is a water heater. If the water was hot, you wouldn't need a heater. ]
 
Ron, [sm=rofl.gif] my dad is a plumber and people used to call us all the time saying their hot water heater broke.  Oh, too funny!

I just thought of another one of my pet peeves. 
 
People who do not speak English but expect that you speak their language. 

I hate it when people say "Rockweiler" instead of Rottweiler.
 
I get annoyed wen people call obedience commands tricks.
 
 

Lisa Marie, you said "Boom cars."

I really hate those, too. The building teach in is very old, built around 1917. It's quite fragile, really. If there is ever another big earthquake in Fairbanks I am getting out of it ASAP.

Which brings me to Boombah Cars. That's what I call them. They sound like they are going BOOMbah BOOMbah BOOMbah as they go along. When one goes by where I work, the whole building shakes, and I mean really shakes. It's quite scary!

Heh, maybe I'll be in the first building collapse caused by a Boombah Car.

ORIGINAL: jeano

When my son was diagnosed 20 years ago there were two diagnoses on the books, yes, the DSM-III, I believe it was at the time. It was ADHD, and ADD (ADD without the hyperactivity). That's all.

I hear your gripe and I have lived that story. My son still remembers me sitting on him on a streetcorner in LA so he wouldn't run out into the traffic. He said he would have if I hadn't. He was that willful. My son is one of the most ADHD kids you'd ever meet. Shopping was a nightmare. Often I'd just leave the cart with the groceries in it and go home, defeated, rather than endure one more ignorant jerk telling me I didn't beat my child enough. [:@]He's much better now, but I wish he'd get some real medication, and not use nicotine (cigarettes). []

Eats, Shoots and Leaves, yes! I should check it out of the library. I've read it, I know I have, but it's been a while. Thanks for reminding me.[]

Ok Jean, i'll forgive you for calling it ADD (even though I could argue that your son has what was in the DSM III as ADHD, and not ADD). I meant more so the people with kids who are pretty young, whose children were diagnosed as of the criteria in the DSM-IV, and not those diagnosed when the DSM-III was being used. If you couldn't tell, i'm just a silly nerd who enjoys reading the DSM.
I can't say I have left a store, but I went out with a family I whose son I work with (we actually were going to pick up their puppy). I was walking around the store with the kid, showing him animals, and he saw a powerstrip. He likes to flip switches, and I wasn't fast enough to stop him, so he did it. I could just tell by their looks that the people in the store thought I was irresponsible or something, because most boys his size (he was a few days sigh of 8 at the time) would know better than to do that. What the people giving me nasty looks did not know, because they do not know him, and did not know that he wasn't feeling very well, was that he was really behaving quite well- for him. Plus, I already felt bad about it, and their looks didn't help.

What about when people say spaded, instead of spayed?

ORIGINAL: willowchow

What about when people say spaded, instead of spayed?

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Jean:
I entertain dark, dark fantasies of blowing up the boom car that haunts my sleep.  Not with anyone in it - in fact, I want the owner and passengers just near enough by to see it explode and shoot their audio components to kingdom come.  And I want it to somehow look like an accident and for them to be underinsured so they can't afford to replace the dam* thing.  In fact, it would be best if it looked like the sub woofer did it....
 
Thankfully, when I rehabbed this 100 plus year old house about 18 months ago, I sacrificed some period integrity by going for vinyl replacment windows, double pane with low e ergon gas or whatever between the panes and it makes an ASTONISHING difference in cutting down on the noise that will bleed in through 49 windows....with the windows shut, a pillow over my head and the radio tuned to the classical station, I can almost not hear it.

Massive trucks that think that they are better than the sedans and hog the road

 
When I was a trucker, my pet peeve was the little cars that would fly by you at 80 on the flat, then sit in your lane doing 40 on an upgrade so you couldn't pass and couldn't even keep up speed.  It really sucks having to drop those extra gears, since time is money for big trucks.
Also, while we're on the subject...how about the campers and motor homes that park crooked at the rest stops, and prevent the semi's from getting into the one remaining arking space?  Not good when you have been driving for ten hours, need your sleep, and the next rest area is 60 miles down the road!
I could go on... [8|]

I have always been a great speller and great with grammar.  BUT I also type really fast and dont look at the screen (I look at the keyboard) and sometimes the wrong word comes out or things are spelled wrong... I may quickly skim over it but dont worry too too much about getting it correct all the time.  Sometimes when reading back through a post Ill notice something stupid I did and just leave it.  I also don't use apostrophys (sp) when I know they go there like yall or Ill... I dont always do it but trust me I know where they go.  I could get it all perfect if I felt like it, but dont see too much of a reason to here - but I also HATE when people use the wrong words and spell things all wrong when it seems like they really dont know any better.

I hate when McDonalds charges 15 cents for a freaking sauce but cant even get your order right.

I hate when people chew ice (one or two pieces I can handle - but more...no)

I hate when people cant afford to care for their dogs even when its a simple thing.

I hate when Im in line at a store or something and someone is yelling and cursing at their kids.

I hate when I see a mother tell their kid "Gimmie dat" "You aint gonna get nothin" "Shut your a** up boy/girl"  "Why you aint listenin"  and so on...

**I hate when people are talking to me and get right in my face and even when I move away just move right back in... get a clue!

I think my number one is I HATE WHEN PEOPLE STARE.  What?? WHAT?? What are you looking at???  Are you retarded? Quit looking at me you idiot!  OMG that just eats away at me more than it should but I cant handle when people just keep looking at me or us or whatever... I really dont think people should just continuously watch others.

Ok Im done for now[]

Oh yeah - people who want to pet their dog while youve got them on the exam table and keep doing it even after youve asked them to please have a seat so we can do our job.

All the crap you have to go through to get a PERSON on the phone when you need customer service.