Pet Peeves!

[chickwhorips]

those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)

[snapdragen]

But I like the word gi-normous!

[Lise]

are you saying ga-zillion isn't an actual number?

[salsabike]

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.

[sandy45]

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...

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...

[Aggie_Ama]

My pet peeve: People that leave their shopping carts in the parking lot, free to CRASH into my car! Walk a few yards and put them up!

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.

[Tater]

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...

No it isn't weird! Bad table manners drive me up the wall!

[Pascale]

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!

[enzed]

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.

[bcipam]

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!)

[Kitsune06]

those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)

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.

[doc]

Irregardless of the way people utilize there grammar, maybe your all just too uptight and need to loose you're hangups. I don't know if you will get this message, since your all out literally walking your dogs. Me? I am going to get 11 items and stand in the 10-Items-Or-LESS line.

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.

[snapdragen]

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.....

[Kitsune06]

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.)

[chickwhorips]

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.

see what i have to put up with.

i will wait for you my pretty... and i'm like an elephant! i never forgit!