What are your silly pet peeves?

[2kitties]

Originally posted by Cataholic
Oh, I think you guys took that last comment kind of not how I meant it...

I was raised correctly. I have table manners, am professional, classy, don't wear white after labor day, can identify most crystal, know how to set a table, blah, blah, blah. But, I don't see myself as somehow lacking because I talk on a cell phone all day long, everywhere. I am not a loud person, so, maybe my cellphone talking is less 'offensive' then some others? But, I just don't get it at all.

I can't really see talking on a cell phone while waiting in a doctor's office (though I AM one of THOSE people that thinks my time is just as valuable as the doctor's and calls ahead for the wait time), nor, do I see talking on a phone in church (? do people really do that?), and I laugh at the gym people that do it...JUST like I laugh at the gym people that stand around and talk-real time real place- as it is just such a waste of time to be in a gym and do nothing. But, sitting outside Starbucks waiting on someone? At the grocery? Heck yeah...I put the phone into my pocketbook when I ring out, just as i would stop talking to my friend.


I really think it is the WAY people talk on cell phones (or as a group of people talking really loud in a restaurant, or walking five abreast, or drive the car with the music so loud, or the ,etc.).

I just don't see the issue with cell phones.

Now, I am off to write some thank you notes for some gifts less someone think I wasn't brought up correctly????

EVERYTHING SHE SAID!!!
I'm a cell phoner. Never in movies, never in church, etc. I, too, can set a table, hold my soup spoon correctly, tie a bow tie, and diagram a sentence. My handshake is firm and my eye contact is good.
And, when I'm on a business trip and I'm sitting in a restaurant alone, instead of talking to the person across the table from me, I choose to talk to the person on the other end of the phone. What's the big? I'm never louder than normal conversation voice, and I'm very courteous to other's "space." i'm sorry if some of you all have had bad experiences with cell phones, but I promise they aren't evil.

[Tonya]

I'm a busy mommy. I juggle 40-60 hour work weeks, school, homework, parenting, the gym, kickboxing, etc... I HAVE to use my cellphone. I am constantly on the phone with doctors, teachers, physical therapists, banks, vetrinarians, my husband, you name it! I don't have time to take care of my personal business otherwise. I am courteous most of the time. Church, meetings, and movies are big no-no's. I have it on vibrate 90% of the time. I don't stop people in midconversation to answer a call unless it is an emergency. I do drive and talk at the same time. Sorry, but I have no choice.

[Foam]

1. Prank calls
2. Teachers who don't listen, and ignore you
3. People who find something negative to say about everything
4. When people don't rinse off their plates and just out them in the sink!!! Like I want to touch it and look at your grosse left overs soaked in water! **GAG**
5. Girls that put this in their AIM profiles:
'OMG I LOVE YOU, DEREK! I LOVE ERIC! I LOVE ****! YOU'RE SUUUU FREAKIN HOTT, ADAM! PAUL IS HOTT! OMGOMGOMG!!'

6. Typos!!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Another one.

People who walk *MY* dogs or hold their leashes. I don't trust anybody to. Also, when they tell them to "sit" or "jump", and they wonder why they don't listen to them. Hello? They're *MY* dogs, why would they listen to you?

Those are probably my biggest pet peeves.

[kitten645]

anyone notice out of these many replies, none refer to our furkids??? No "pet peeves" as such?? I don't care that Calvin feels a need to jump on my head at 4am...or that Hobbes HAS to sleep between my ankles hence I can't possibly move all night. Doesn't matter that Hobbes has to poop,dig to china,make a round the living room and come back to pee,then dig to china again at 2am??
My pet peeves??

People that clip there nails in public
Women that put their makeup on in public
Cell phones...don't get me started
People that cough/sneeze the entire commute...don't get everyone else sick for the love of....
People w/headphones you can hear from a block away!!
Whistling and cracking of knuckles/joints..I swear some people ONLY do it in front of me..

People in general Give me an animal any time....
Claudia

PS RE cellphones...I use mine too but only to tell people I'm late, lost etc. I don't really need to hear someones 40 minute call about who owes who how much money. As the ad goes, "If you love your cellphone so much, why are you screaming at it?" And I don't care who you are sitting across a table from but if your on a cell it's just rude. You never HAVE to eat w/anyone. You might as well just say "Your not worth my time or attention."

[petlover]

I cannot stand commercials. They come on just when you start getting into a movie. Also I can't stand " To Be Continued" shows. I am always on the edge of my seat waiting for something to happen, and it flashes on the string " To Be Continued." I hate it when that happens.

[primabella]

I thought of another one...

I hate hate HATE people who walk slow! I can understand if they are old or are obviously...limping or something. But a person is who totally capable of walking faster but who won't...and who stands right in front of me, thus slowing me down...ugh! It drives me nuts. In the halls at school and especially when we go shopping. I don't get it. I apologize to anyone who may like to walk slow but I'm sorry, it drives me crazy.

[Twisterdog]

5. Girls that put this in their AIM profiles: 'OMG I LOVE YOU, DEREK! I LOVE ERIC! I LOVE ****! YOU'RE SUUUU FREAKIN HOTT, ADAM! PAUL IS HOTT! OMGOMGOMG!!'

That's hilarious.

And I agree.

I'm a busy mommy. I juggle 40-60 hour work weeks, school, homework, parenting, the gym, kickboxing, etc... I HAVE to use my cellphone.

I'm not contradicting you, but that always makes me roll my eyes when I hear people say they HAVE to have their cell phone and could NOT live without it. Ummmmm ..... and how long have you had said cellphone? Not your whole life. How long have cell phones been 'the thing', anyway ... less than a decade? How did we all manage to survive without one all our lives?

I am a single mom, I own my own business, and work 365 days per year. I use my cell phone maybe an average of once a month. I survive just fine.

I don't have a problem with cell phones used discretely and politely. I just hate the lady shrieking at her kid on the cellphone, while standing three feet behind me in line. Or the ditzy teenager beside me at the doctor's office, having a thirty minute conversation about boys and hair and makeup, punctuated by "No! Oh my God! For real?" approximately seventy times per minute. Or the guy sitting next to us in a cafe whose cell phone rings 10 times duing one meal, etc. Rude, rude, rude.

[carole]

I am sure I could write a big long list, but one that comes to mind is crooked things, I cannot stand it, I just have to straighten them, no matter what it is, cannot bear it if it looks crooked.

I also hate smelly fridges, I know certain foods taint the fridge, like cauliflower and broccoli, but I hate when you are at someones house, they open the fridge and phew PONG, the whole room smells, yuck, my daughter comments all her friends fridges smell when they are open and ours doesnt, I wonder if thats true or she is just used to our smell lol.

I get annoyed when people jay-walk at the pedestrian crossing, Not that I am innocent of this, yes I have committed this crime, but now as a more mature citizen , I donot do this anymore, and to set an example to my daughter.

When people refuse to use serving tongs to pick up their food at a cafe, and use their fingers instead, this really bothers me. Who know's where those hands have been?

Answer machines, I hardly ever leave a message, but yes I have one myself, hypocrite I am lol.

Well thats all I can think of for now, think thats kind of enough.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I thought of this thread this morning while at Jazzercise. One woman was talking on the phone while working out. Although I am a cell phone user, I had to giggle. I'm just so glad I'm not that important and can leave it in the car! Also, I don't want people (on the phone) to know I'm at the gym when I should be working...

All the doctors offices around here forbid cell phone use because it will interfer with sensitive medical equipment. I wonder if that is just a clever ruse to discourage use!

[2kitties]

Even I don't use the phone during my workouts!!! If you can talk on the phone, you ain't breathin' hard enough!!

[tomkatzid]

Last night at work I heard this guy talking really loud. I thought why the need to talk so loud just because your on a cell. I looked up and he was not on the phone but just carrying on a conversation with the man next to him, inches away. He spoke loudly all night, lots of people looking at him...

I could care less if you talk on a cell, any place that allows talking. It is no different to me than speaking to a person next to you. But... as a server when I come to your table to greet you and take your order, you MUST NOT ignore me. I will go away and not come back till you wave your hands like in 4th grade gym class. And never can you shoo me away with your hands, I will NEVER return, even with all the hand waving in the world. I am not your slave, I am there to help make you comfortable.
Oh no.... I started ranting, sorry.
Katz

[RICHARD]

People who are in the service industry, cashiers,
receptionists deserve our attention....
I once saw a woman whip out her cell as she was being helped by a cashier......She went on and on
until the gal practically had to stab her with the pen to get her to sign the credit slip

Should you bother them while they are on the phone you'll get ignored or told to 'Wait, I'm taking a call/on the phone'.


When they call you back to the table and complain about the service, nicely say, I saw you were on an important phone call, It would be rude of me to interrupt you.

knuckleheads!!

[RICHARD]

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computi...er.phones.idg/




lolololololololol....

[carole]

Since we are talking about phones and cell phones, that reminds me of my other two pet peeves associated with these instruments.

We have a system you can have on your phone here called call minding, or waiting, so that if you are talking to someone, and someone else rings you can answer their call, then go back to your other call, this infuritates me, I will be having a good conversation with either my sister or girlfriend, right in the middle of something, and they say oh hang just got a call coming through, I actually find this really rude, and like my conversation is not really that important.

Does anyone else get bothered by this, or is it just fussy ole me?

my other is text messaging, now I got into this myself a while back, while my sister was in las vegas, and it was great for instant contact etc, but I have since not bothered, it takes too much time up, and cost me money.

However my dear sister, bless her, is in MO addicted to it, everywhere she goes she is always texting, her kids who are adults now text her two three times a day, with silly nonsensical messages, I remember one time we were out shopping, together, not something we get to do often, and she was texting someone, in the end I left her to it and walked on looking by myself at the shops, otherwise I would have been waiting for ages, and I am not that patient, she did not mind, but I did.

phew got that over and done with, thanks for listening.