<p>People who say or write “wanna” instead of “want to” and “gonna” instead of “going to”. It sounds sooo ignorant. And I notice it a lot on this forum of all places.</p>
<p>People who don’t know the difference between “less” and “fewer.” Example - This juice has FEWER calories, not LESS calories. Drives me nuts!</p>
<p>People who overuse the word “anyways.” “Anyways” isn’t even a word - it is just “anyway.”</p>
<p>People who start off sentences with, “Me and ___ did this…” I think someone mentioned this one already, but it can’t hurt to say it again. ; -)</p>
<p>“Wanna” and “gonna” also bug me a lot.</p>
<p>End of minor rant!</p>
<p>People who say “This happened to me at my work” instead of “This happened to me at my job”.</p>
<p>People who are irritated by everything. ;-)</p>
<p>Public speakers who pronounce amphitheater with a hard P sound as in ampitheater. After all, nobody talks on a telepone or goes to the parmacy. And Kermit is not an ampibian! </p>
<p>The worst part is that so many morons say it that it will become acceptable. Just as “comprised of.”</p>
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<p>People who are irritated by people who are irritated by everything. This message was brought to you by The Department of Redundancy Department. ;-)</p>
<p>My sil always says “how are you feeling ? good? " How was your trip, good?” makes me feel that she really deosnt want to know. she doesnt say just to me either says it to everyone.
People who chew with their mouth open.</p>
<p>When I ask a question with two options and someone responds with “yes” or “no.” For instance, if I asked “Would you like this or that?” and instead of “this” or “that,” the person says “yes.” I still don’t know what you want! That makes me crazy. :)</p>
<p>axw…bahahahaha. good one. 
glad to know my sarcasm wasn’t wasted. that would have been irritating.</p>
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When I spotted someone (without a bag) letting her dog use my lawn, I grabbed a bag, took it outside and said, “I see you forgot your bag so I brought one out for you.” What could she do but pick it up. We take several bags with us when we walk our dog … better to have too many than too few. Once, DH had already used the bag we brought with us (which is why we now take more), so he had to use a magnolia leaf as a “pooper scooper”. Fortunately, we were near the pool and tennis courts where a trash can was handy.</p>
<p>hyperjulie, I love the “yes” or “no” responses also. I get that all the time!!</p>
<p>this isn’t a huge pet peeve as something that bugs me personally but it’s something that always makes me scratch my head… people who send us back our business reply cards at work with no information on them… I remmeber one day I had about 25 cards on my desk that people had mailed in to us and 20 of them were completely blank. I assume they do it because they enjoy making us pay the postage… but they are doing more then that… they are wasting their time by taking the time to drop it in the mail, the post offices time by having them process and mail a piece of blank mail, the companies time by us sitting there going through each one to make sure something is written on it, etc. If you’re not interested, don’t send it back. All that time adds up. you’re probably making your friends who are interested wind up pay more for something they are buying from us because of all the blank post cards you decided to mail back to us. I’m just making up numbers but say we need to hire another 5 employees to deal with all the blank mail. I would think that the cost of their salary gets passed along to someone… I’m not sure if they know that there are actual people reading these cards once we receive them or what however sometimes people will write funny things on them… for example they will put their name as something along the lines of mr smart person at 1235 street in thisispointless, PA 67890. I mean, as the person reading the mail that would make me laugh and I would just move on to the next one, but is that really necessary?</p>
<p>Parents (or anybody, really), mowing down the middle of the path with their strollers. Really, I’m not an unreasonable person, and I try my best to move aside, but when you don’t even bother to at least watch out for the people coming the other way because you just simply assume that we’ll all part like Moses and the sea, well…</p>
<p>I always enjoy imagining their reaction if they ever actually ram their stroller into me and I fall and knee their child in the face.</p>
<p>Oh, I just thought of another one. This is big in my family:</p>
<p>People who eat something, ask for the recipe, change said recipe, and then complain that it’s “not as good”. Well of course not, you took this out, added this, etc! (I’m a huge foodie and cooking is nostalgic for me since I’ve been helping my parents in the kitchen since childhood…this REALLY bothers me.)</p>
<p>One of my biggest pet peeves is people who leave their shopping carts next to their cars when finished. Really people, is it that hard to walk the few extra steps to return the cart to the corral ? I am always moving carts that I never used to keep them from blowing into someone’s car.</p>
<p>Also ,when people use the word " ignorant " when they mean "arrogant "
and " where you at ? " ugh…that one is like fingernails down the chalkboard to me</p>
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AMEN! DH and I have pushed rogue carts in to the grocery store the past two times we’ve been shopping. Honestly, if someone has the energy to walk in to the grocery store, do their shopping, and walk out to their car, wouldn’t you think they can “push the limit” and place their carts in the corral? OTOH, when I go to the grocery, if I pass someone pushing their cart to the corral as I’m headed in to the store, I’ll take it from them to save them the trip and make it easier on the store employees. </p>
<p>Another HUGE pet peeve for me … northerners that have moved to our area and complain about snow days. No, we don’t have the snow removal equipment here that they have up north … that would be stupid on our parts to spend our taxpayer dollars on things we use so infrequently. We southerners love our snow days. Sure, there are times when it’s inconvenient and, sadly, there are the occasional accidents (like anywhere, including the north!), but we’re fine with doing things the way we do them. By the way, I am enjoying my second “snow day” at home today. :)</p>
<p>After dropping off DS at school and coming home- I’m in the fast lane of the freeway, already going 5-8 miles OVER the speedlimit and some moron behind me flashes his high beams to tell me to move over.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I don’t don’t live in Europe and it’s rude to flash. Normally, when I see someone coming up on me, I do move over. But when I get flashed, it makes me cranky and I get perverse. There’s nothing that will get me to move over.</p>
<p>Then when they get in front of me- after going around… I flash them several times. :)</p>
<p>Regarding the dog poop issue… we live in cold, snowy area, so it is usually frozen into the snow pretty quickly (I always take an extra bag, but then can’t pick it up if I see something on our property). Then when stuff starts to melt, who steps in it while out in the dark with the dog? Me, of course…</p>
<p>We used to live in the city, and our neighbor tethered her dog so it could come into OUR yard (small yards, no fence in front where she tied it). My ex used to take the poop and leave it on her front porch (NOT in a baggie).</p>
<p>I heard a piece on This American Life recently about apartment complexes that DNA tests dogs that live there so they can figure out who isn’t picking up. It was surprisingly inexpensive. I have been fantasizing about DNA testing the dogs in our neighborhood for this very purpose “Here, doggie, doggie. Let me just take a little cheek swab…”</p>
<p>Ha, the neighbor used to let her dog out to do its thing anywhere (which meant our yard, when we had a toddler).</p>
<p>I picked up the poops with a trowel and threw them all in her driveway. She was mad as anything (I heard her) but the dog stopped coming over.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why neighbors can’t attempt to resolve things like dog-doo issues in a civil way. We had a collie that would occasionally run through his invisible fence. We tried to prevent that, but dogs will be dogs. One day he did his little doggie duty on one of the neighbor’s lawns, and she put it in a bag with an anonymous note on our back deck. I would not have known which neighbor it was, but I happened to see her from one of the windows. </p>
<p>I went over to her house and asked her why she didn’t just come to the door and say that our dog had escaped his fence and gone in her yard - I would have been happy to come clean up after him (the woman and I had never met). She seemed rather taken aback, but I didn’t feel that her actions were very neighborly.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem like the Golden Rule applies to dog poop :(.</p>
<p>dog poop has a way of making for some mean fights in our neighborhood. our now deceased golden retriever knew if anyone left any of our five gates open , that was an opportunity for her to roam the neighborhood. One day , a business friend of ours dropped off some items that we exchange/ borrow from each other…he didn’t realize that he hadn’t latched the gate and she nudged it open and strolled across the street and made an intestinal sculpture for the neighbors ( she would get excited and lose her manners when meeting new dogs ) One of my friends on the street came over to warn me that the woman was blood red in the face and coming to get me…long story , but really unfriendly neighbors to all…she flipped out on me , which really could have been resolved by a simple " your dog just pooped on my lawn , please clean it up " Instead , she caused such a ruckus that one of the little girls who was there cried out of fear…the worst part was these same neighbors intentionally walk their three dogs on everyone else’s lawns , multiple times daily.
About a yr later , same woman bagged up some poop that she insisted was left in a wooded area of our street and left it along with an unsigned note on our other neighbor’s doorstep. I guess she didn’t realize or care that these people’s pet lab had died several months prior…we refer to them as the fecal police</p>