What is your Pet Peeve????

[fitzy]

Working in NYC what really annoys the crap out of me are people who think they are the only one's that exist in this world. They still step out of a business or hotel or whatever and step right into the middle of a busy sidewalk and stop. Oblivious to the hundreds of people who are busy trying to get to where they are going and about to run this person down. The worst is usually on 5th ave with all the tourists and also right outside the Waldorf Astoria.
The other thing that bothers me is just inside the north entrances to Grand Central there is a monitor with the list of trains. People who don't give a crap about anyone else that may have a train to catch will step into the doorway and just stop blocking the way for everyone else so they can see what track their train is in. Move in and out of the way.
The third pet peeve of mine happens in the exact same location however it's in the morning on the way to work. God forbid if people were to get wet. They will stop and block the few doors of the exit so they can try to locate their umbrella. Just fricking step out already and then open it. You're not going to melt if you get a couple drops on your head. So what ends up happening is that the vestibule area is now full of people and anyone coming up the escalator can't even get off the damn thing to the point where people are getting injured on the escalator or people are getting trampled in the vestibule. GRRRRR

 

[mso489]

I don't want to have too many pet peeves; there's so much to be grateful for, feel good about.

But it tries my patience when people habitually string every conversation out for two or three

hours, in person and/or on the phone. These folks inevitably do much of the talking. It isn't

really a two-way conversation, so you are essentially listening to them do the thinking that should

have preceded the conversation and been substantially edited for your consumption. Also, this talk

is usually full of all kinds of dark thoughts -- disappointment, jealousy, regret, and so on. These

people really need to go in for regular sessions with a psychologist or psychiatrist and work through

the problems and not make them the long-winded sound track of what purports to be a friendship.

Now, good story telling, conversation, when all of the participants have an equal part, that is entirely

different. If that goes on for hours, hurrah.

 

[roadqueen]

Pet peeve : people who are angry when you disagree with them. People who feel slighted because you disagree. People who cant disagree civilly.

+1 Everyone is different, and we all have different tastes, thoughts and opinions. Expecting everyone else to agree with you is just childish as far as I'm concerned.

 

[zonomo]

Thank you for starting this thread. I guess i have a few... along the same theme as Roth:

I really am annoyed with reviewers who post a review based on their first bowl, knowing nothing about the blend, even liking nothing about the type of blend.

People who are asked an opinion of an aromatic and their first sentence is "I don't really smoke aros but ________". Isn't that a little like saying "I don't follow baseball but here's my opinion on it".
Of course, my pet peeve is people who either door ding other cars or don't teach their children to be careful.
Finally, yesterday I was driving down the freeway and the idiot infront of me flicks his lit cigarette out the window and it bounces off my hood. No wonder people hate smokers....

 

[zonomo]

People who lie and say they severed in the military

Excellent and well stated.

 

[estumpf]

People who park in handicapped parking. You happen to be there when the driver and/or passengers get out and i'st obvious no one is handicapped. Of course, I suppose if being a rude selfish boar is a handicap, then that person might feel justified.

 

[juptierspipe]

Hey Top,

Awesome picture and man oh man do I remember that look! Got my ass busted on inspection day for not "I.P'ing" my uniform.
Semper Fi brother

 

[dochudson]

drivers that sit in the left lane with their cruise control set at the same speed as the driver beside them in the right lane.
folks who won't hang-up their cell phones when checking out at a grocery (or anywhere else) and ask the cashier to hold on a second.
folks who wait in a line (like ice cream shop last night) and when they finally get to the front stand there and take forever to decide what they want!! what the hell they been doing the last 15 minutes?

 

[appointed]

Oh the list of my pet peeves is far too long to name them all, but I will share a few. The left in general is a major one.

Now one of my biggest pet peeves that really grinds my gears is when people say "feel" when they should say "think". Thinking and feeling are two entirely different things. Feeling is limited to sensory experiences and emotions. I reckon it really just shows why things are in the crapper when so many people can't think critically and instead respond to things emotionally. That brings me to another pet peeve: philosophy and logic are foreign concepts to the majority of the population and it shows. Pick up any newspaper and it is shamefully easy to find scores of logical fallacies in articles. One more would be that everyone mispronounces "often". The "t" is silent. I feel a lot better now that I've ranted. Thanks for starting this thread Plateuguy.

 

[hunter185]

Ha ha! My pet peeve is people ( other than forum members here that in general display intelligence). I find that my trips to the pasture to hang out with much less annoying mammals (horses) occurs with increasing frequency. Are people in general becoming stupider, or just increasingly selfish, unproductive and unmotivated? Does this correlate to the fewer number of pipe smokers?

 

[mustanggt]

I absolutely hate people that don't mind there own business. They are Hippocrates of the first degree that think they should pass judgment on your life when they themselves do the same thing. Then there are those that seem to never have been tought the golden rule by their parents.

 

[voorhees]

[/quote]People who park in handicapped parking. You happen to be there when the driver and/or passengers get out and i'st obvious no one is handicapped. Of course, I suppose if being a rude selfish boar is a handicap, then that person might feel justified.

Be careful there, I have a friend without any outward appearance that he is handicapped. He suffered a major stroke a few years ago, he can forget where he parked his car sometimes.
Jason

 

[foggymountain]

Too bad we expire so young.

 

[tarak]

Negative tobacco reviews when the reviewer admittedly doesn't like that kind of tobacco.
Example: "I gave Dunhill Nightcap 1 star because I thought it was gross and smoky and tastes like cigarettes and smells horrible in the tin. But I don't like English tobaccos."
Not fair to negatively rate something because you don't prefer it. Rate it for what it is, not what you wish it do be. Cabernet Savignon will never me Mascato, if you follow me