Public Behavior - What Are Your Peeves?

Mine: Among many other peeves, I find it really annoying to go out to eat and be be seated in proximity to somebody who either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about their volume. At dinner last night, I was seated near a woman whose voice and laugh made my head tremble - so obviously loud and intrusive on other diners, she obviously didn’t care to tone herself down; that, and the fact her multitude of shopping bags were spilling into the walkway, I wanted to accidentally knock over my glass and watch it land on her Prada tote. People should stay in their own space, and that includes keeping their voices to * just across the table * volume.

Yes, I was not a happy camper yesterday, LOL!

Cigarettes and unruly children. Those of you in states where it’s not publicly acceptable to smoke anywhere and everywhere have no idea how lucky you, and your lungs, are…

Ubers and Lyfts parking in lanes marked “Bus Only.” Not just dropping off someone and peeling off, literally waiting for their pax for more than 5 minutes! The buses can’t pull next to the stop, and it adds many hours of commute time a year for thousands of commuters!

People who rush through doors, when others are trying to exit.

Slow walkers in the grocery aisle, and of course they do this in the center of the aisle.

Waiting in a long line where everyone is a few feet behind the other, except that one person who leaves a 5 foot gap. I don’t know why that bothers me so much.

People who shout on the phone, full volume, on the train.

Unruly children in high end restaurants. (The load obnoxious talker described by OP would have bugged me too).

Bikes on the sidewalks instead of in the adjacent bike lanes (and cyclists who don’t think traffic signals apply to them).

Groups of people who meander slowly three or four abreast down the sidewalk, making it impossible for anyone to pass them.

People who don’t give up seats marked for the elderly, pregnant or disabled when such people are present.

Those who park in handicapped spots because they’re “just running in for a second.”

Phone conversations at haute voix!

There are those dogs everywhere, and no, they’re NOT service animals. It’s really not fair to everyone else that you want your special dog to be everywhere with you—that’s not what the rest of us signed up for.

I find screaming and miserable children in public to be extremely distressing and wish their caregivers would give care and take care of them rather than having them have a full blown tantrum at the top of their lungs for the entire mall to endure for over 15 minutes that felt like an eternity.

Constant foul language.

Dangling drifting pedestrians. Please just use the rules of the road – on sidewalks, escalators, in supermarket aisles – please.

DH calls Sundays at the grocery store “Squirrels: The Gathering.”

People who drive too fast in parking garages.

People (men mostly, sorry) who spit in public - on the sidewalk, sublawn, etc. Just gross.

Middle aged men who park in the space marked “reserved for pregnant women” and literally trot off to the store.

People on the subway that manspread or put their bags on the seat next to them

People who start looking at their phones and texting on the jetway when deboarding a plane. They walk slower and more obliviously than everyone else and block the flow. I almost crashed right into a woman in front of me when her rolling bag a she almost stopped getting off a plane last night. She could have waited the 30 seconds to get off the jetway and pull aside.

@MaineLonghorn I totally agree. Although I admit am known to use bad language myself upon occasion, I do not drop loud F-bombs when walking down the street for all to be forced to hear. Usually it is small groups of somewhat disreputable-looking young white men who seem to be trying to project rebellious machismo.

I also dislike people who conduct loud political conversations in restaurants where others are sitting within two feet. I’ve asked to move in those circumstances.

Folks who run red lights and those who speed through residential areas—they endanger innocents as well as themselves!

I must be a very peevish person; either that, or I have something in common with each of you!

Gate lice.
(People who gather at the airport gate long before their group is called, blocking all the people whose groups have been called from boarding.)