What are your silly pet peeves?

[gini]

KayAnn, you know, like a sing song voice - real cutsey - and not natural. Especially when you know what they "really" sound like.

I have a friend who does that sometimes - and I always give her a look of: "what's up with you?"

PET PEEVE:

It just has to be cell phones - it especially bugs me in the grocery store. You are standing looking at something and they walk right up next to you and talk away. So many times I have thought they were talking to me..........their voice was so loud.

I saw a handmade sign in the back of a car......it said HANG UP!

What did we do before we had cell phones - never communicate?

I even read that you can buy fake cell phones and just hold them up to your ear and chat away. God forbid a total stranger might not think you cool because you don't have a cell phone.

[2kitties]

I have two voices. I have my regular voice, which is just plain me. Then I have my professional work/phone voice. I mean, I can't exactly talk to a client and use my usual terminology: "Like, can you, Like fax me that? K?"

And, I only have a cell phone. We don't have land lines to our house- seems like a waste of money since the cell is so much cheaper. But I'm a good girl and turn it off in restaurants, etc. But, in the car, the headset is on and I'm takin' care of biddness! Oh, and I'm forever making calls home in the grocery because I SUCK at taking pre-shopping inventory. So it's Ring Ring "do we have cheddar cheese." Ring Ring: "do we need toothpaste."
Seriously, I have ADD. But honestly, I never dreamed I was making anyone angry in the grocery when I was talking quietly on my phone. I don't understand- why does it bother others?

[Kfamr]

Ohhh.. another one of mine..

I think I got this from my mom and dad, Because they used to always yell at my brother and sister for it.

When people come in the neighbor hood with their radios BLASTING. Ok yes, I love listening to the radio very loud, but -- Not in the neighborhood.

I hate when people come through the neighborhood with the bass super high and the volume all the way up. Can't you just turn it down until you get out of the neighborhood or since most come in the neighborhood to come home, why not just turn it down as you enter -- since you're going to be getting out soon anyways?


OHH.. Another one -- The neighbors across the street from us ALWAYS park cars on the street, both sides of their driveway -- which is directly across from ours. It take us FOREVER to pull out of our driveway because we have to twist and turn the car so we don't hit theirs.

Our neighbors across the street are morons anyways...

[2kitties]

right on Kfarm.
Note to bass pumpers:
If your car makes my car vibrate, or if I can hear your radio and we both have our windows up--- it is too loud.

Also, I hate when I have my windows up in my car and I smell smoke from somebody else's ciggie.

[stacwase]

Gini - that's what I mean. Or a really childlike voice.

Of course - your professional voice is different. It's necessary - you're not doing it to get attention or be cute.

And of course our voices change when we're angry - like when you're angry but you're trying to hide it. That's OK too - I mean - that's just natural.

But it's that stupid whiny little girl "I'm so innocent" voice that drives me nuts!

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by 2kitties


Also, I hate when I have my windows up in my car and I smell smoke from somebody else's ciggie.

Or their POS car!

Another one!! When someone's car is so crappy that it SMELLS horrible. I mean, all exhausts on cars smell a bit -- But when I can smell it miles away, get a new car!!

[slick]

OK, one more worker rant that just happened. I'm in the BR doing my thing, and the girl in the next stall starts to strike up a conversation about her home computer and asking me for advice. Excuse me???? Hello???? This is a washroom. Let's take this conversation to your office that just happens to be 10 steps from mine.....

I'm not a BR loiterer

[micki76]

Originally posted by 2kitties
I have two voices. I have my regular voice, which is just plain me. Then I have my professional work/phone voice. I mean, I can't exactly talk to a client and use my usual terminology: "Like, can you, Like fax me that? K?"

And, I only have a cell phone. We don't have land lines to our house- seems like a waste of money since the cell is so much cheaper. But I'm a good girl and turn it off in restaurants, etc. But, in the car, the headset is on and I'm takin' care of biddness! Oh, and I'm forever making calls home in the grocery because I SUCK at taking pre-shopping inventory. So it's Ring Ring "do we have cheddar cheese." Ring Ring: "do we need toothpaste."
Seriously, I have ADD. But honestly, I never dreamed I was making anyone angry in the grocery when I was talking quietly on my phone. I don't understand- why does it bother others?

Yeah, I'm with you on this one. Isn't it basically the same as if there were another person there that they're talking to?

Doesn't bother me a bit, but then I too, am apparently an offender. I talk on my cell almost anywhere anytime, except the places where you should be quiet normally like the movies and stuff.

[popcornbird]

About changing the voice................it really depends for me. I mean......I don't change my voice (hate that), but I have a different *style* of talking with different people. Like I have a *home style* the way I talk with my parents, and then how I talk with my brother. Voice is same, style is different. I think this more has to do with language, you know, because I usually talk to my parents in Urdu, and my brother in English. My parents expect me to talk to them in Urdu so I don't *lose* it..............you know, when you know more than one language, you don't want to lose the ones you don't get to speak too often. Occasionally, I will talk to my parents in English too, but the style is different from how I'd talk in English to my brother, or friends. I talk to my friends and brother in a very American accent, which is my normal accent...............but somehow, with my parents..........it just sounds different. I have pretty much the same style of talking to anyone other than my parents. People who I'm more free with, I probably talk in a more free manner. People who I'm not so free with, its more *formal*..........you know? But I hate when people change their voices, to that squeeky *baby* voice. I don't like that. Keep your voice how it is........don't go around changing it.

One of my pet peeves related to this is how some people change their *accents* to something its not. I know this Eqyptian girl, who grew up in Egypt and moved to the US a few years ago. She has a TOTAL Eqyptian accent..........I mean TOTALLY, and she tries to change it to American, which she CANNOT do, so she ends up sounding like a total wierdo. I mean........if you're not an American and cannot talk like one, is that something to be ashamed of? Talk like yourself! I can't understand a word she says when she constantly tries to talk in an American accent, which isn't possible for her.

[primabella]

People who don’t control, punish, or contain their children.

I hate that so much! I was at my friends birthday party and her family was at the restaurant with us. She had her bro and her little cousin and they were running throughout the buffet. It was driving me crazy! The owners even asked her parents if they could control their kids but they seemed to not care. Then we went to a bowling/arcade place and they ruined my chance of winning a a game.

Few more..

1) People in school who don't listen then ask for help/answers/if they can cheat

2) People who walk in the hall and stop in the middle to make out with their girl/boyfriend. Number one, get out of my way, number two, do you have to do that in my face?

3) Smokers who stand around the front doors so I HAVE to pass them while I go in. Lucky me if I don't get caught between them while they're spitting or have their hand way out because they're not taking a puff.

4) People who are desperate and date guys/girls just so they won't be alone.

5) Actors and actresses who think they are all that.

6) People in general who show off. I hate that.

7) People who don't respect the crossing signals or can't drive. That also includes talking on the cell or putting on make-up while driving

8) People who spend thousands of dollars to buy a coat when I can buy the SAME ONE for much cheaper but it's not a brand name. Like, honestly, who cares?

9) Those people who actually think that them and their high school boyfriend are meant to be and will get married. I'm sorry there is a chance but..not likely.

Does it show I didn't have a great day at school today?
There are many more...

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Our neighboors are morons too.
One next to us, have a BILLION people living in one house, I swear it's like more people keep moving in. They have parties EVERY SINGLE week and play (no offense to hispanic people) very loud Spanish music. I can't stand it! They park in front of my house, and block our driveway. Their kids run on *our* front lawn and break our sprinklers. My dad isn't very fond of them, neither am I.
Then, on the opposite side we have a "priest". Although he doesn't act very priest like. Molly hates him too. She starts barking like mad whenever she sees him. One time, I was walking her, and she started barking in front of his house. I told her No Barking, just to be polite and he said "That thing should have a muzzle on!" Needless to say, I've never liked him since.

I do talk differently in front of people. Like here, I always try to be polite (not saying I'm not polite in "real-life".) With my friends, I'm more laid back.

PCB, my sister does the "baby voice", and it drives me nuts! Another one of my pet peeves...

[stacwase]

Oh, Popcorn - that's not what I meant! Of course that wouldn't bother anybody! I guess you'd just have to see people who do it to know what I mean. It drives everybody around her nuts!

But about Egyptian people trying to change their accents. I guess if I were learning Egyptian, I'd want to speak it like the Egyptians. I'd try my very best to pronounce all of the words correctly. When I try to speak Spanish to my Mexican patients, they can barely understand me because I pronounce the words so badly (as I'm looking each word up in the Spanish/English dictionary). So if I were to learn Spanish I would do my best to speak it with a Mexican accent. It wouldn't be that I was trying to be someone I wasn't - just that I was trying to be more understandable! Of course I do think the accent is beautiful, but that's beside the point!

I sometimes wonder how the American accent sounds to other people. I love to listen to French accents and the accents of people from Sri Lanka. They're just sooo pretty and romantic. But the German accent sounds harsh and gutteral to me. So - tell me! Is the American accent soft or harsh?

[popcornbird]

Ok, I'm remembering things.............so here's my list.

1) Cannot STAND people who bring their kids to other peoples' house or to public places and let them do whatever they want without controlling them! *You don't know how many times I've told my mom to stop inviting certain people to our house, just because of the fact that they have evil children that basically drive me insane by wrecking the whole house, and their mothers don't tell them ANYTHING!

2) People who try to talk in an accent that isn't their's.........sounds artificial you know?

3) Smokers! Cannot stand cigarettes to any degree.

4) Boys who go around skateboarding in the *show-offy* way, around the whole neighborhood, trying to get attention by people passing by.

5) Girls who carry around a bag full of makeup and constantly apply it while talking...........no matter where they are.

6) Revealing/overly tight/or transparent clothing. Cannot stand to see people dressed like that.

Have more, but I'll post them as I remember. Right now I'm babysitting my friend's little sister (3 year old), who is an absolute sweety btw and doesn't bother at all. She's standing next to me, wondering what I'm doing on the computer. Of course she's to little to understand so I know she won't get out my *confession*.

Ps. She's not learning English..........she already knows it. Its just when she's around us girls who normally talk with an American accent because we grew up here.........she tries to talk in the same way, but she totally can't, and we understand her SO much better if she talks normally, without twisting her mouth to *try* to sound like us.

[2kitties]

It is so interesting to me to read all the peeves posted by Teens. Most of them, if you read back through, involve people at school, talking, dressing, stopping in the halls, showing off, dating, flirting etc.

Just goes to show that High School is a SERIOUSLY WEIRD PLACE!

[popcornbird]

I don't know how the American accent sounds to others, because its my tongue.......my birth accent, so I hear it just as any other American would. My aunts in Pakistan though........they can't stand when I speak in English! They say American kids talk too fast , but I can swear I talk 10 times slower than most other teens around here. Oh well. I don't talk to them in English anyway. They do say they like the American accent way better than British though, and personally, I have to agree with that. For English, I like American accent better than British, even though they're the ones who speak *real* English!