<p>Everyone has them… I think it would be funny to discuss…</p>
<p>For me… It drives me crazy when people tap their feet… or when people tap their pen on their desk. It’s probably just a nervous tick for people or something but I totally lose my concentration and can’t focus on what I’m doing at all. </p>
<p>Also… when people use the wrong version of a word… such as their, they’re, there… , right, write… etc</p>
<p>It also makes me go nuts when people come by my desk to “borrow a pen.” I don’t know about you guys but whenever somebody borrows a pen from me, I might as well kiss it goodbye because it very rarely finds its way back to me. I personally love to use Sharpie Pens because I love how they write… but after replacing like 20 dollars worth of them within 2 months I decided to keep a box of cheap crappy pens in my desk for anytime anyone wants to borrow a writing utensil. These are also the ones I take into meetings with me because I am queen of leaving my crap behind. I remember one day about 5 years ago I even left my purse in a conference room. Oops! =)</p>
<p>I also don’t like when people say the “word” alls. “Alls you need is love.” “Alls you need to do is go out into the street and do a dance.”</p>
<p>Oh, and when I am asked if so and so can borrow a tissue it always makes me laugh. No, you can not borrow a tissue. You can HAVE IT!! I DO NOT WANT IT BACK!!!</p>
<p>Crunchy-chewing noises (like chewing ice or noisily chewing chips, etc) drive me NUTS!!! And we have family members who, I would swear, could win a championship for making the most noise possible when eating crunchy things. </p>
<p>DH has gotten to where he orders water with no ice because he knows the looks he will get if he forgets…</p>
<p>This sounds really stupid, but I hate it when there is slimy, grimy stuff around the bathroom sink faucet bases. In public restrooms I sometimes start scrubbing at the stuff and have to remind myself that it isn’t my job to clean the restroom faucets. At work, I have occasionally cleaned the restroom sink faucets because I hate looking at them.</p>
<p>I commute by train, so my top peeves are: people (usually men) who sneeze very loudly and wetly (yes – it’s gross), thus spraying germs two rows up and two rows back; people who, when they get on the train, stand in the aisle and leisurely remove their coat, fold it, and place it carefully on the overhead rack, thus blocking anyone else from moving down the aisle (it’s as if they’re preparing for a transatlantic flight instead of a 1/2 hour commute); and the worst – nail clippers. It’s usually on the trip home. Clip clip clip (pause). Clip. They must average about 5-7 snips per nail because it goes on for ever. With bits of their nails all over the floor.</p>
<p>Haha, this summer we were taking the train into NYC, a nearly empty car, and the woman behind me got a call on her cell. She was discussing the apt she had for rent with a potential tenant, all the while getting lots of glares and requests to tone down the volume of her discussion from the fellow across from me.</p>
<p>When she started rummaging around in her purse for a paper & pen to take the caller’s info, two pairs of hands holding paper & pens shot over the seat-back to her! She got quiet after that.</p>
<p>How about gum chewers? Very few people have that habit down in a way that it is discreet. AND there are some places people shouldn’t chew gum at all–like church for instance.</p>
<p>ha ha ha churchmusicmom! I thought I was the only one bugged by loud crunching. My son and husband are huge chip crunchers and it makes me NUTS. </p>
<p>How about slurping? Uggh. The rest of the family insists that it makes soups and beverages taste better. And licking fingers (noisily) when a bit of food gets on them? Thankfully they only do that in the privacy of our home, but geez…isn’t that what the napkin is for?</p>
<p>I’m sure I have no bad habits that drive them nuts. ;-)</p>
<p>I absolutely HATE it when the servers in restaurants bring our beverages out in their hands. Use a tray! I’m not a germophobe but the thought of your grubby hands on the edge of my $8 glass of Pinot makes me nuts!</p>
<p>Any food noises while eating - slurping, chewing with your mouth open, sucking on ice, chewing loud - ALL of it!!!</p>
<p>Use of “your” when it should be “you’re”.</p>
<p>The drop and walk away - things like taking the rubber band off the morning paper and dropping it on the dining room table (WALK TO THE GARBAGE CAN!), emptying out a glass and then setting it on the kitchen counter (INCHES OVER, PUT IT IN THE SINK!) - all the things that would literally take a few seconds to take of!!!</p>
<p>One of my biggest pet peeves is people who are so “important” they must talk on their cell phones in the doctor’s or dentist’s office even though there are signs requesting no cell phone conversations. I really, REALLY dislike those ear pieces, too, as they make people speak even more loudly than they normally would. Recently, while at the grocery store, a woman was speaking on one of these and looked at my husband and me as if we were interrupting her conversation because we were discussing which item to purchase.</p>
<p>Another pet peeve, but one with which I’ve learned to live, is people (including DH) who do not lower the toilet seat and lid when finished. Really, the lid is there for a purpose. Lower the lid and then flush. This keeps all those contaminated water droplets from spraying up and out around the bathroom. Because my husband has complied with so many things I’ve requested of him, I don’t make a huge deal of it anymore, except last week when I slammed each seat and lid down as I went through the house after having a particularly bad day. He understands why I’d like the seat lowered … especially after the night I nearly fell in to the toilet when I got up to go in the middle of the night, but he doesn’t understand the lid thing. I make sure I put my toothbrush away in a drawer after each use.</p>
<p>People who do not slow down in store parking lot aisles and/or who do not wait for you to finish pulling out of a parking spot when you are already 1/2 way backed out.</p>
<p>People who talk on their cell phones & you see them in your rear view mirror, in a state where it is vs. the law and/or teenagers obviously texting & driving!</p>
<p>Yes, abasket, and how about those people who cut across a parking lot paying no attention to the people who are actually going up and down the aisle correctly? It seems a lot of things that bother me happen at the grocery store. Perhaps I should stop shopping for food. :)</p>
<p>After watching too many sporting events on TV …</p>
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<li><p>Why do they STILL have to increase the sound level of commercials?</p></li>
<li><p>Why do they add some silly hard rock music to replays? Do they think it makes the runners look faster or the plays more interesting?</p></li>
<li><p>Has anyone ever told the ESPN people how stupid the “buck + something” sound? What is wrong to say …XYZ ran for 134 yeards? Why XYZ ran for a buck 34? </p></li>
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<p>The ones who see you walking to your car and then will sit there and wait for you to load your car and back out… I’ve been told that’s a good time to balance the checkbook…</p>