New peeve thread???

[Scooby4]

I used to work on an Army installation. They banned Cell phone use while driving on the base. If you were caught on a cell phone while driving you were given a ticket. You had to pull over to the side of the road to use your cell or not at all.
I had a job that cell phones were NOT allowed. So no one could call me at work and then couldn't use the phone on the way home. I did purchase a cell phone for those "off" occassions that I may need it in emergency. Matter of fact, I tell everyone that my cell phone is broken and try to avoid calling it. I only give out the number to possible job prospects or business dealings. So I don't use it much at all.
Funny story though... I was on my way to work one morning when I saw a wreck. The police couldn't see the vehicle that had run off the road from their perspective. It had rolled into a fence and was on fire. So I called 911 and told them the burning vehicle's location and how to access it. Well, my cell phone is somewhat broken. It kept cutting off. I was still a few miles from the Army post. Me and 911 kept trying to communicate but they were "lost". They had fire trucks on the way. Well, the phone finally cutoff for the last time. So I thought. I knew the fireman would find the vehicle. I get up to the Army base and to my surprise my cell phone rings! It is 911 again asking for more information! My badge is in the security guards hands!!! and I am on my cell phone!!! There is a line behind me and you can't stop but for a few seconds.
I completely panicked!!! I NEVER use my cell phone but for emergencies and this was one! I quickly had to yell to the security guard that this was a 911 call while trying to communicate to 911 and keep moving the line. I felt soo baaaad! I've always hated people who drive and talk on cell phones and hold up a line. Here I was being one of them!!! Luckily, the guard allowed me to go on through the barracade which is difficult to drive through with 2 hands. I did pull over after I got passed the barracade and finished the phone call. The fire trucks did find the vehicle. However, a few weeks later I did notice a weath of flowers attached to the fence in that area. I never saw anyone in the vehicle so I don't know the outcome.
Maybe I am slow to technology, but grabbing a cell phone and a steering wheel just seems soo unnatural. I don't like to do it unless it is absolutely necessary.

[G.P.girl]

ok heres one: so i'm standing in my kitchen (windows that face the street) and i see this lady walking down the street on the other side drinking a cup of coffee. and theres kind of a cement wall next to the side walk (the nieghbors house is kind of raised up) and she stops and starts staring at the neighbors house and i'm like 'hah... she's stalking the nieghbors' and then she sets down the cup fo coffee and starts walking off. so i open the door and i'm like hey! wanna pick up your cup? and she's like 'ooooh its not mine' and i'm like "uhhh i just saw you drinking out of it" and then she just kinda looks at me and says "yeah, i just drank the Sh*t out of it" and then walks off like she just sooo cool. and she was a grown woman, not a teenager, not even close.

[just me]

I just hate mean people .....

[Van10]

I just hate mean people .....

Ditto!

My other major pet peeve is advertising. I find that it's getting out of control.
These days you can find it EVERYWHERE, on the bus, on the subway and in bus/subway stations, on billboards, as pop-ups on the computer, etc, etc...

It's found even in public bathroom stalls and it will be coming soon to cellphones!

Give us a break! The more a product or service is pushed at me the less I'm interested in it!!!

[RICHARD]

Here's another one...

When people walk down the middle of a parking lot row....
and keep looking over their shoulders to see if you are gonna hit them...

MOVE TO ONE SIDE AND LET THE CARS GO BY!!!

[just me]

You are so right Richard.
Another one is not moving grocery carts from the middle of the isle, making you wait till their done looking. And if you say excuse me, some act all p-o'd
at you like, how dare you, like its a big bother to move to let people thru.
That makes me sooo angry inside, I could just bust.
Back to my original statement, I just hate mean people

[Lobodeb]

Or along the grocery store peeve, the people who see you looking from one side of the aisle and stand directly infront of you as if you were to look through them. Hello! I'm standing here out of your way so you can pass freely and this is how you repay me.

Or, if I am in your way, please say excuse you. I'll move, I promise. I once had a lady stand behind me and just clear her throat over and over. I purposfully didn't move because I was waiting for her to say "excuse me." I ended up asking her if she needed some water.