<p>y’all = you all
ya’ll = annoying </p>
<p>I promise to close the toilet lid before flushing forever (I honestly never thought about it).</p>
<p>“<<hugs>>”</hugs></p>
<p>I think that is juvenile and stupid.</p>
<p>intparent, I totally agree with running late on meetings and hogging conference rooms. We usually have meetings booked pretty closely together and sometimes it feels like you forfeit 10 minutes worth of your meeting just waiting for the previous meeting to get out of your room. </p>
<p>Whenever I facilitate a meeting I make sure we are out of our conference room a few minutes ahead of time - If we have to congregate at my desk for a few minutes afterward that’s fine by me… at least we’re not holding up the rest of the company.</p>
<p>abasket, I wonder if I’ve talked to your husband on the phone - lol. I’m constantly being put on speaker!!</p>
<p>I have to add foot tapping and parking lot row hopping to my list also.</p>
<p>This isn’t really a pet peeve exactly however I want to add customers who are rude and talk down to you for no reason. I work in insurance. If you knew the answer you wouldn’t be calling me so don’t treat me like I’m an uneducated woman with an IQ of 10. Chances are if you called me then you need something and you catch more flies with honey then you do with vinegar.</p>
<p>Oh, and the people who go through the self check out at the grocery store with a cart full of groceries. I stand there not so patiently waiting holding my 4 items while you scan a weeks worth of groceries for your family of 12.</p>
<p>I hate it when people use the term “like” when they aren’t comparing things. Its like it drives me like crazy, like ya know?</p>
<p>The fast leg shaking/bouncing/foot tapping drive me nuts too. How do people even do that? I can do it!
Another pet peeve-- When I am on the phone with someone, especially when I am on my cell, which doesn’t have the greatest battery life, and the person I am talking to puts me on hold to take an incoming call , and leaves me on hold for an inordinately long time. Or worse yet-- when they take a call on their land line, leave me in limbo, and I can hear them sayng things like “I am sorry you have the wrong number” and have some long ongoing conversation with a person who dialed a wrong number while leaving me hanging. Its just totally rude. I have told the one particular friend who does this to me all the time that if she needs to take the other call (are they necessarily more important?) to let me hang up and she can call me back when she is done. After the THIRD time doing this to me in one conversation (after I twice asked her to either not take the incoming call or to let me go and call me back rather than keep me on hold forever), I hung up.</p>
<p>Jym, add that to my list too. </p>
<p>I have customers that call me up at work… and then put me on hold while they take another call… sometimes it’s call waiting, sometimes it’s on a cell phone…etc… you can hear them in the background at times saying “I’m on the other line, I’ll call you back later…” I don’t mind that one so much as the “Oh, how are you? How’s the weather? How are the kids?”… etc… you get the point. I had a lady put me on hold five times throughout a conversation one time. After the fourth time I told her that if she put me on hold again she was going to have to call us back later because we can’t wait on hold for her all day. She put me on hold yet again… I waited like 2 minutes and then hung up. I felt bad about it because I never like to hang up on someone but I did warn her… I can’t wait on hold for you all day when I’m at work with things to do. Call me when you’re not saving the world.</p>
<p>People who arrive at my office when I am just closing up (or worse, just after I’ve closed up) who not only still want to conduct business, but can’t do it quickly. How smart does someone have to be to understand “We close at 4:00?” If it’s 4:10, or later, I’m in the office on my own time to accomplish something on my own agenda, not to give them enthusiastic customer service. Ditto for the many mornings when I arrive early. </p>
<p>People who don’t understand the phrase, “That’s not in my job description.” And I’m willing to be very generous in interpreting an elastic job description. </p>
<p>Phone calls from strangers at dinner time - I don’t care whether they’re from my favorite charity or any other worthy cause. </p>
<p>Political phone calls at any time, especially if they’re automated so I don’t even have the satisfaction of hanging up on a real live person. (fendergirl, you’re much nicer than I am - I hang up on people all the time! :D)</p>
<p>frazzled, I hang up on political phone calls all the time at home… </p>
<p>Since you have people who come in after you’re closed, you’ll like this story… We have some people that telecommute from home… and one night at like 11:10PM one of my coworkers work phone rang, I guess she forgot to log her self out so it wouldn’t ring… and she answered and said sorry, we are closed… can you call us back in the morning? Anyway I guess the guy said oh yeah sure sorry about that… and he didn’t hang up his phone correctly and she heard him say to his wife “I got the gosh darn cleaning lady!” She said to me, that’s right… now I have to get back to cleaning my house!</p>
<p>Someone already mentioned my pet peeve - people using handhelds while driving. They blamed kids for this behavior, but I am seeing it more and more frequently for all age groups. I make it a point to blow my horn loud and long when anyone strays outside of their lane. This is becoming a daily event and is almost always because the driver is playing with a handheld.</p>
<p>People who blow their noses at the table. Gross! Get up and go to the bathroom.</p>
<p>People who stand in the middle of the store aisle and block it…or worse, whole families who block the aisle. Sorry, you’re not the only one trying to shop - step aside if you can’t make up your mind.</p>
<p>People who talk on their cell phones while carrying out out a transaction in a store (paying for their purchase). So rude!!!</p>
<p>Using the word ‘gift’ as a verb.</p>
<p>If someone wants to take another call just say, quickly, ok call me back - bye, then hang up. Say it with an upbeat tone.</p>
<p>One more! People who call ME and ask “who is this?”. SO rude!</p>
<p>^ Yes, allthisisnew to me!! I usually respond with “who are you calling?”</p>
<p>and srw- oftentimes when a call beeps in the person says “hang on a second someone is beeping in” and clicks over before you get a chance to get a word in edgewise. With the person who always puts me on hold no matter how many times I politely ask her to let me go and call me back, I now just wait briefly and then hang up. I may then make another call, and if she beeps in I do NOT interrupt my current call to take hers.</p>
<p>Momlive-
People blocking halls, doorways, aisles, ski trails, you name it, are rude. How about the ones that are in their cars and stop next to each other to have a conversation, blocking the entire road? Sheesh.</p>
<p>fendergirl, I’m an offender. But I’ve never seen an item limit at a self checkout. I very much prefer to check my own stuff out. I think I’m faster than the cashier and some of them are downright unpleasant. </p>
<p>My pet peeve is those who go through the Express Lane with more than the limit of items. Also hate people blocking aisles, going the wrong way in the parking lot, and the absolute worst for me is people coming out the in door or going in the out door. I’ve seen people come out a door just because it’s open when a handicapped person in a wheel chair has used the automatic open button. He/she has had to wait until all the able-bodied people stop streaming out the open door.</p>
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<p>UGH…I hate hate hate this. As someone who worked in retail, I always try to be very courteous to people in stores and will talk to them while checking out…how’s your day going, are you guys really busy, etc.</p>
<p>If my phone happens to ring, I will answer it and tell the person, “I need to call you right back.” Most of my friends now this means I’m doing something but will call them back within half an hour and have no problem with it.</p>
<p>My biggest:</p>
<p>-Friends who make plans with me, then can’t show up (or don’t want to) but don’t let me know. Really, it makes me more angry that you didn’t let me know than that you didn’t show up!</p>
<p>-People who ask the professor every few minutes, “Can you repeat that?” or, “Can you go back a slide?” I understand once or twice if you don’t understand or didn’t catch something…and usually, if you really couldn’t get something, more than one person needs to see the slide again b/c the professor went too fast. But if it’s every other slide…go to office hours. Stop taking up my (expensive) class time.</p>
<p>-People who walk reaaaaaaaally sloooooowly down store aisles. I have a lot of things I need to do in a day, please either leave room or walk a little faster. As a side note to this, I do understand that some people can’t walk very quickly and this doesn’t bother me so much, because it usually is fairly easy to tell.</p>
<p>-People who either bump into you or brush up against you and can’t be bothered to say “sorry” or “excuse me”. Am I the only one who was taught to do this? It seems like it…especially since when I do bump into older people and say “sorry, excuse me” (usually with a polite smile), they seem SHOCKED.</p>
<p>-Texting and driving. A two-year-old girl in the town where I go to school was just killed, and her mother put into a coma, because of a girl using her cell phone while driving. (there were other factors–unsafe street, bad time of day, but still.)</p>
<p>-When I miss a call, call the person right back, and they don’t answer. REALLY?</p>
<p>Okay, this is the biggest one and then I’ll stop:
-When people can’t be bothered to put things back where they found them in a store. At the very least, hand it to the checker and ask them to put it back for you…most of the time they’re happy to. Many stores have a system where they can put things into bins to be put away later…it especially bothers me in grocery stores when the item in question is perishable. That costs the store money!!! This never bothered me until I was the one who had to go through every aisle and put everything back that didn’t belong. Some of the stuff gets laid down INCHES from where it belongs…COME ON, PEOPLE!!!</p>
<p>OH. And off of this (Last one, I promise!):
-People who do not control their children in stores. I worked at Michael’s Arts and Crafts for a few months, and we had a rather large children’s section. We once had two young children pull all of the loose action figures out (we had HUNDREDS), put them on the floor and start “playing” with them. We also would frequently have kids running through the store, playing with sometimes fragile items, and the parents would just let it happen!!! One of the managers would always see them and say to the parents, “If your child breaks that, you will need to pay for it.” The parent would THEN discipline the child. UGH. My children will NEVER behave that way in a store.</p>
<p>hisgrace, regarding “can you repeat that?”… unfortunately they will never outgrow that inability to pay attention. I can’t tell you how many trainings i have taken part in at work where the same person asks over and over for every single thing to be repeated. I kind of think that they should give those people their own separate training session, haha!</p>
<p>I was facilitating a meeting not too long ago and someone kept asking the same question, over and over… just phrased differently. It was obvious it wasn’t sinking in. I wound up just saying “let’s take this offline” and explaining it later 1 on 1… that way we could continue our meeting and finish up our agenda in a timely matter. Then I had somebody ask me what it meant to “take this offline.” 
I always assumed that was a common jargon.</p>
<p>People holding a cell phone while trying to back out of a parking spot. It takes them 17 times to go back and forth and finally turn their car enough to leave. It’s a steering wheel, use it! </p>
<p>People who drive really, really slow and then run a red light anyway. How hard is it to stop if you’re only going 15 mph? If your reflexes are that bad, please stop driving.</p>
<p>Stores where you can’t tell the price of something. I wish they still used those little stick-on price tags.</p>