seriously–this is about pets?
Great, we are so DONE with our D’s dog who happens to have lived with us
off and on for the last 7.5 years. She is not a bad dog but also somewhat unpredictable.
Has not had an accident in years. I had a surgery where I was not Alpha dog for a month and she had two.
(H is hopeless that way).
Told DD that this Sept. it is over–the dog is hers, period.
Also planning a trip for 2 weeks in June and told D ( who lives 3,000 miles away) that she needed to find her care (which she did).
Love dogs and am so over them. A bit like kids … :-*
@oregon101 we may have thread spread a little…
Pet Peeve: people who put a container back in the fridge with a TINY bit left in it. WHY???
Or people who eat an entire bag of chips or box of crackers and leave just a couple. Or two cookies after they ate the whole package. Why? And yes, I know who you are!
" Pet Peeve: people who put a container back in the fridge with a TINY bit left in it. WHY??? "
I would suspect so they wouldn’t have to wash said container
I have to say, after reading the OP’s pet peeve about restaurant seating (@conmama?), I’ve been noticing it more and more. We had a few guests visit and I made sure that they chose their seat first. I might gravitate towards the “best” seat (i.e. one where I can stash my purse somewhere and not worry) but it’s really not that important to me.
So, one night 3 of us were out and it was a busy restaurant and they put us at a 2-top with an extra chair and I was definitely in the worst seat, very exposed to back and forth waiter traffic and no place for my purse. A large party came in and was waiting for their table by the bar and I swear it felt like they were resting their drinks on my head! Sure enough, someone spilled something on me and I’m glad it was only white wine and it was only a bit on my hair and not on my blouse. Pretty funny!
I look at the bright side and am happy that at least we didn’t have to wait for our table.
@mom2collegekids, my Mom had this weird pet peeve about someone eating the last of something. She’d get all upset: “Who ate the last of the cookies? You could have at least left one for me!” It was weird-I mean, someone had to eat the last one, and I guess it always had to be her.
So I often unconsciously do what you’ve described above; it’s ingrained in me, and it drives DH nuts.
Waiting to be seated at a restaurant, standing for 15 minutes only to be seated at a table that was empty and clean the whole time. Yes, I understand that the server may not be available for a few minutes. How about asking if we’d rather wait at the table or standing in the entryway?
I just saw this list, which is essentially a list of pet peeves other nations have about Americans. Some I could have predicted, others were surprising.
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/02/10-american-habits-that-others-find-offensive/21368977/
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@mom2collegekids, my Mom had this weird pet peeve about someone eating the last of something. She’d get all upset: “Who ate the last of the cookies? You could have at least left one for me!” It was weird-I mean, someone had to eat the last one, and I guess it always had to be her.
So I often unconsciously do what you’ve described above; it’s ingrained in me, and it drives DH nuts.
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@Nrdsb4 lol…well, I imagine what you’re mom really meant is that when she’d buy something, the kids would eat/drink it all before the parents even had a chance to eat one. If y’all opened the new package, and had put a cookie in a baggie and set it aside for mom, she probably would have been fine with that. 
Just yesterday, my housekeeper complained that her grown son “will eat the whole package” of whatever she buys, leaving her nothing. I know she likes blueberry muffins, so I often buy her a package, but she told me that she rarely gets to even eat one. So, now she’ll remove one from the package and hide it before putting it her kitchen. 
I do have to admire that you do make sure that you leave something behind for another to eat.
Reading newspaper comments online and having people blame Obama for everything. Or the equivalent in Britain, blaming the EU for everything. We recently had unprecedented gales in Britain and people were blaming the EU Meteorlogical Service (which incidentally doesn’t even exist!).
Tailgating! I absolutely hate it when people do this. I live in a small town and the main road goes by three schools and in the morning the speed limit is 20 mph. The cops sit and watch almost every morning so there is no way I am going to go faster than 20. So back off!
There was an old wives tale that whoever ate the last of something would be an old maid. That led to leaving a little bit for someone else. That lasted for many many years into my marriage. Still applies at times. Chocolate is the exception, of course. Will easily eat the last of that.
People with kids in seats on their bikes and the kid has a helmet on but adult does not.
Who will care for kid when your brains are all over the pavement?
Add to that, @mominva , people who put their helmets on wrong (sitting back on their heads) and do not protect the most important part- the frontal lobes that sit under the forehead. Judgment, reasoning, impulse control, etc atre all mediated by the frontal lobes. Protect them!!
Pet peeve: making reservations at a restaurant for an odd number of people like 5 or 7, and then being squeezed into a table for 4 or 6. Speaking of best seats at the table, I always seem to get stuck at the end so I’m sharing a space designed for one with two other people. I feel so claustrophobic.
This happened to us last week. To make matters worse, I was the one who made the reservation, but totally forgot to say it was for 6 instead of 5. They seated us at this tiny booth designed for 4 people. I thought it was going to ruin the night which was in celebration of our daughter’s 21st birthday. But alas! It wasn’t as bad as when we go out with other couples. Why you ask? Because 3 out of the 5 of us are still skinny young things! :))
Bumping this up.
People who are SO BUSY! So much busier than you are! You know that person, who’s so busy! They can’t get back to you or are so disorganized. Because they are so busy!
And if you dare to say anything, how dare you! Don’t you know how terribly busy they are?
Websites that refuse to let you see their content until you disable your ad blocker. Never!!! Forbes, I guess we won’t be friends anymore.
Work emails that are over formatted with background effects and weird fonts and colors.
Yes, I hate that about Forbes because I have a friend who is a travel writer for them.
Also, those “click bait” things that list “the 10 things you can’t resist clicking on!!!” and when you click on it, you have to look at each one separately on a single page so they can attempt to totally smother you in ads and ridiculous celebrity exposes.