those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)
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those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)
But I like the word gi-normous! :o :D
are you saying ga-zillion isn't an actual number?
I think the correct word is actually "bazillion". See, this is how language gets corrupted...
Actually, I think its living river-like qualities make language beautiful to watch as it grows and changes.
it kills me when you go to talk to some one and they say ok...like go ahead...but then they dont listen to a word you say! they just sit and stare....kinda like DH is doing right now....he aint gettin anything....not from me...:eek:
also...i have a thing about people who eat loud...i could be across the room and hear them then no matter how loud it is that is all i hear...i just want to scream...i know weird...
Or the people who put them on the little grass medians when the cart corral is right across the parking lot! The only time I excused this is when I watched my Pawpaw do it at the Lowe's I worked at. The man had congestive heart failure and didn't want help, so by the time he got back to his car he was worn out. He would put the cart where it would not roll away on the median, the Lowe's didn't have a corral anywhere near the handicap spots. Watching that out the front entrance from my job at the return desk broke my heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by denda
No it isn't weird! Bad table manners drive me up the wall!Quote:
Originally Posted by sandy45
OH! And the whole "lend/borrow" misuse - I don't even need to elaborate...
...but I will at any rate.
My mother-in-law talks this way ALL the time:
"I'm just going to borrow youz guys some money" (or whatever item she's talking about)
... like nails across a chalkboard. She also taught her boys to eat holding their fork at the end, in their fist, with their elbows parallel to the floor - it's like eating with cavemen! :mad:
One of my pet peeves is smoking.
I haven't got any problems with smokers generally. It is a legal habit & it's not my money they're wasting.
At my local supermarkets, cigarette's are sold through the customer service desk. It is situated near the express aisles & sometimes the cashiers work both the sections.
Instead of queueing with the rest of the shoppers during the peak-time, all smokers have to do is wait at the customer service section, where there is hardly any queue.
And when the person buying the smokes doesn't get served straight away they get all grumpy about it. Just like a women at my local supermarket did yesterday.
She just walked up to the customer desk & expected to get served straight away. Just because she smokes, she thought she was more important than the rest of us waiting in the looong queues.
Many it's just she was in a hurry knowing she was on borrowed time and all...
Smoking is like a heroin addiction. Maybe worse (which is what people who know have told me). When you need a fix, you gotta get it right away. Give the poor drug addict a break! She can't help being all stung out and jittery/onnerves. (I say all this tongue in cheek!)
Oh aren't we impatient? I do things on my own time... so sometime a couple years from now, you'll have TOTALLY forgotten about ALL of this, and for whatever reason, I'll have vacation time in AK, so I'll go and come through on all these threats. It works best with the element of surprise. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
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Originally Posted by Bluetree
I couldn't have said it better myself. Well done. :) You touched on my 2 biggest pet peeves. Even though you wrote tongue in cheek, it was painful to read.
1 It's 10 items or FEWER. Fewer, not LESS!!!!! The only store I know that has it right is whole foods. Apparently they care about the safety or our foods and our grammar.
2 Your instead of you're. For god sakes people, your, like an apostrophe is possesive.
Smokers - I'm an ex smoker, so I'm probably worse than anyone! I hate the smell, can't stand walking "the gauntlet" of smokers outside when I'm going to work.
Eating - OMG. I have a very dear friend, love her madly. BUT. She eats like a barbarian. Fork in a fist, eats with her fingers (non finger food), shoves huge amounts of food in her mouth at a time, then talks with her mouth full. I try not to sit across from her when we eat.....
I hate it when one of my co-workers will comment offhand "Oh, all my kids are SO sick with the flu... the whole nausea/achey/fevery bit."
...then a couple days later, they call in for 3 days in a row...
...then I start getting achy/chilly and say "No! No! Not ME!" ... but then it's the whole fever deal etc.
-Kitsune (at home, drinking hot tea and sleeping anywhere she happens to sit for more than 20 minutes.)
see what i have to put up with. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
i will wait for you my pretty... and i'm like an elephant! i never forgit!
you never spell check, either! :p
How do we ever tolerate each other?!
Here's another peeve, which I fortunately haven't encountered in a while... People who see my obviously Asian ancestry and regardless of the fact that I was born and raised in California, assume I don't speak English. And the other ethnic stereotypes, too.
The most common ones I hear:
"Where are you from? Pasadena? No, I meant originally... where are you from? Pasadena? No, I meant before that..."
"My, you speak English very well!"
"pokjfijwfmwjfo???" (I have no idea what they're saying, but they're speaking to me in a foreign language, assuming I am from their country)
"Do you know what 'yellow fever' is?"
The best one was in Lexington, Kentucky. I was there on business, driving in from Louisville and had stopped by a local diner. The waitress came up to me, opened up the menu in my face, pointed to pictures of the various items and then said slowly and loudly, "What... food... do... you... like?" She said this making an eating motion with her hand.
I ordered my meal with the few Spanish words in my repertoire.
Whew! :p That's a good one! I think I'll be chuckling to myself all day every time I think: "What... food... do... you... like?" Oh, man. That's funny. Answered in Spanish. heh heh heh, good one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluetree
My sister (now 42) and I still tell the story of being in Kentucky with our grandparents (we're all from Illinois...well, our ancestors are from Sweden and Scotland and Denmark...oh, you get the point. We're northerners). My sister was 10. The waitress asked her what she wanted to order. When she hesitated a second too long, my grandmother said, "She doesn't understand you, dear. It's your accent, you know." :o
I confuse the heck out of some people when I speak my fluent Spanish at work. I walk in all Swedish looking, open my mouth, and out comes good Spanish. I've been asked if I was maybe...Cuban? :confused: Usually they say, "Where are you from?" Here. "Where are your parents from?" Here. "Are you married to a Latino?" No. Finally they break down and ask, "Why do you speak Spanish so well?" I practice!
i warned everyone on here i can't spell for the life of me. (good thing for me)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
i have no idea how we tolerate each other.
Typically I quickly check in while at work post something quickly and get back to work. Lord knows half the stuff I post doesn't make sense. As long as you all know what I mean...
Also several years ago I sustained a serious head injury. It affects how I type. I use a correctly spelled word but its just wrong... like I want to say "I just saw the cutest jersey" but will say "I just ate the cutest jersey" trust me its weird... oh well.
I'm a selective grammar vigilante... I'm not going to hold it against somebody who isn't *publishing* something - every body makes typos and errors. Failing to find an editor for your "scholarly publication," or using lousy grammar when you're a "newscaster..." that bugs me.
Heck, I don't even like it at all when the Weather Channel uses Impact as a verb, and that's at least 20 times a day~! (And... my fingers typed whether channel the first time through :cool: :cool: ) It's that Getting Old Thing :D
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Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Hee hee, Kit -- this reminds me: we're still waiting for the "other shoe to drop" from the Christmas present EArl gave my brother one year! It was a frozen deer-head he found on the side of the road on his way to work one morning. Steve took it home with him, and we keep wondering when it's going to resurface! (this is maybe 15 years now...)
Karen in Boise
Honestly - I go on holiday for 5 days and all you've been doing is moaning and complaining...
Misused apostrophes are my pet hate. I recently saw an advert on a block of retirement flats (over-priced, serviced appartments) which read:
"We'll take care of your loved one's". .....Presumably the words 'hard-earned cash' had been missed off the strap line.
Oh, and I wish you Amercans would learn to say 'aluminium' properly :D
So does my DH. He is a Professor of Chemistry and it drives him crazy when it is pronounced incorrectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno28
Oh, no, you got IT. IT is going around my office at the moment and I'm really not wanting to be sick right now. There's nothing like coworkers with rug rats at home for the spreading of illness to an office.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
And it's even worse when you work with 24 rug rats all day and go home to more rug rats of your own.. :eek: I have such a hard time NOT catching stuff. Wash your hands.... Wash your hands.... Wash your hands...
No kidding. As much as I abhor most things 'antibacterial' and 'antimicrobial' when I'm healthy, I dragged a big container of those lysol wipes to work and wiped everything down before starting @ the desk (we all share one desk/phone/computer/etc) and intend to wipe it all down again before the next girl starts.
I have a lousy immune system (it's getting better, but...) DGF works with 20+ boys, who are all just little disease factories, so when she says "Oh, I had to stay back @ the cottage today b/c about 6 guys are sick and..." I have to say "Shh. Don't wanna hear it."
I'm (of course) sick a few days later. DGF *never* gets sick, so when I'm esp. bitter, I tend to pick on her and call her Typhoid Mary. all in fun, of course.;)
My husband takes those carts & moves them to adjacent aisles. Evil, but funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Sniffling drives me to irresolvable paranoid OCD minus the relief of the C. The only C is the CRAZY.
The worst kinds? The bored sniffler, the arrogant sniffler, or the just-needs-a-kleenex-but-is-too-lazy-to-blow sniffler--all of which involve an incessant rate of 5 seconds or less between sniffles.
People who come to work sick because they are "so busy." Give me a break. Get off of the cross & go home. I don't want your germs.
"Specially" instead of especially.
Apparently, nobody speaks anymore. They "like." For example, "I was like, give me the 411 dude."
Ditto thinking. "I was like, wow, this dude is really stoned." But, anybody who hangs around college campuses already knows that thinking is a lost art.
Just from today, can you tell I was at the mall today?
People who bring theri dogs with them inside stores/malls. I know this statement will not be well received. But that is how I feel. I LOVE animals. But they do not belong in the cosmetic aisle or being walked in the mall or in the dressing room. Leave your animal at home. Mine are at home.
People who let their little kids look under the bathroom stall doors. I never allowed my girls to do that, they came with me in the stall or they had to stand with thier backs to my door, while I went.
while we're at it; you ever called customer service, for your computer,
your cellphone, your internet service and encounter a mouth breather?
AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this absolutely drives me nuts. So he says; hold on,
let me check your records.. then all you can hear is his breathing. BARF!!!!!
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!
okay, i will crawl back into my box now.
I just thought of 2 things that really bother me....
1)..when a car turns right in front of me with out turning on their blinker.
2) someone throws out their hot cigarette butt when Im on my bike right behind them. Im sure I have more ,but these just happened to me this morning.
Suzie
Grrrr. I really really hate it when smokers dump their whole disgusting ash tray out in a parking lot. It's bad enough they toss their butts whereever they feel like it, but when they purposely dump the ash tray, I go ape.