How about a "universal" pet peeve of having champagne taste on a beer budget? Damn silver army mount Dunhills, why do I like you?!?
Piping Pet Peeves
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If anyone wants to push my buttons, just spell "cake" with the letter "k", as if that makes it really kool. Or maybe you are in the Klan, or a big Mortal Kombat fan.
Do you mean the 'Klan' or the tobacco 'Clan'? One wears an interesting smoking jacket whilst the other induces vomiting!
Get out of my head!?
One more: Talking about a location specific matter, and failing to say where the hell that is.
Where I am from, that is considered to be flamboyant.
People who tell me something is 'Just down the road' when it's fecking 30 miles away!
It’s very literally true. She’ll flat tell you off if you’re “one of hers.” Tough lady. Lived through the depression, authentic Tennessee country girl
She’s a hoot! Most people like her immediately. ?
Oh, it’s not every call, but if she happens to think about it I’ll “get it.” ?
That's one of the redeeming things about getting truely old,....you get to take your filter off line permanently and get away with it.
Oh you've met my wife! For her, everything which a 20 mile radius is "a few blocks away"
And is there anything better than the wife calling you to tell you she will be home in a few minutes? Thanks honey, I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and I probably wouldn't have put two and two together when you walked in the door so I appreciate the heads up. If you walk in and my eye is twitching and I otherwise seem frozen, that's just me having an aneurysm from contemplating female communication dynamics.
My son's mother would say "I have to run an errand, but I'll be back in ten minutes", when the store was 20 minutes away, so at least 41 minutes if the errand took 60 seconds". Drove me to drink.
People with noisy children in the 5 year old range who scream at the top of their little lungs.
People who knock on my door on a Sunday morning when I might be busy appreciating my hang over and then proceed to ask me 'Have you found the Lord?'. As a good practicing RC I always delight in debating theology with these doorstep bible punchers. After about thirty minutes they tend to realize that they are out gunned and refuse my invitation to step inside so we can really get the conversation on a more advanced level.
When I was in high school, I had a math teacher, also RC (like yours truly), who did likewise, except the pushers there did accept his invitation to come in and debate. They were at it for weeks. When the troopers were outgunned, they brought in an 'elder', who ended up being routed too. As the elder and his minion(s) were leaving he said to my teacher, in a tone which I only imagine was a mixture of smugness, frustration, threat, and ominousness, "well, we tried hard for your salvation but you chose condemnation". Unfazed, my teacher replied, "it also says in the Bible that during the endtimes there will be many false prophets trying to lead the flock astray. Ever wondered if those guys are yourselves?"
Hilarious!
I have a noisy child in that range but I don’t scream at all.
I had a room mate who put a Mezuzah up on our door frame when the building we lived in on Maiden Lane had a particularly virulent out break of 'Religions that knock on your door' and that seemed to work wonders with those people who try and flog that paper called The Watch Tower.
Man, I just love Tom Waits and I really love that early persona he had going on back then.
I was the First AD on the Foo Fighters TIMES LIKE THESE music video, loved that band, Dave Groll is fantastic to be on set with. Most of my feature credits are schlock you either haven't seen, or did see and wish you hadn't ;D