It’s FAFSA, not FASFA!
People who like to brag about their creepy fantasies. Ewww.
The plethora of self-important Apple store employees milling around with their tablets putting you on endless “lists” to get to that ridiculously named “genius bar.”
Receiving a personal email, and then finding out that at least one other person was bcc’d on the email. Why wouldn’t you let me know who you copied if you did not have nefarious motives? Just plain rude.
Lol, I don’t think I have ever experienced that one 
Good one. Same goes for ATT stores… I think it feels very unnatural how they ‘welcome’ you into the store, and then immediately proceed to put you on a waiting list. The small talk conversation that usually follows is also phony and rehearsed.
I wish more businesses would embrace the leave-me-alone customer service strategy. Smile, say hello, and then let me do my thing without constantly trying to sell me something. Maybe it’s the millennial in me, but aggressive sales tactics do nothing but make me want walk out the door.
Drivers that make right turns and are only looking left for oncoming traffic, never check the right to see if a pedestrian is crossing. I won’t cross anymore, even if the crosswalk light is green, unless I’ve looked the driver in the eye and made sure they have seen me.
Store credit card companies that “upgrade” you to their MasterCard. I’ve had a JC Penney card for 20 years. I was just sent something that they are upgrading me. Umm, no, I don’t want or need another MasterCard. Now I have to call them and tell them no. What a pain.
People who make left turns and “cut the corner”, threatening any car that is waiting at the stop line. Left turns should be like a 90 degree angle, not a 45 degree angle!
Chance threads to Ivies or other highly selective schools where the OP states my school doesn’t calculate UW GPA. I always think to myself, if you can’t figure out how to do it yourself, then you have no chance of getting in.
I’m resurrecting this thread because I have another pet peeve that has happened 3 times in the past month. I have invited couples or friends to do something and they turn it around into an invite. NO! This is my invite. If you wanted to think of something and invite me and others, then do so! Don’t say “thanks, but how about everyone come over here and we can do a potluck?!” 3 very different scenarios. Its so annoying.
Once it was a good enough friend that I could say how I felt in that I’d like to go to her place, but maybe another time. The other one DH dealt with. This 3rd one… Sigh. We have a vacation home and I have an old coworker whose daughter bought one close by…they’ve been fixing it up, its in poor condition and unliveable for a year he said. I said several times thru email that when they are up helping their kids to let me know, I’d love for them to stop by and we’ll take a boat ride. Several times! Just recently also. He just responded and said next time they are up he’ll let me know and we can stop by their kids house and have a drink. No! I invited! I’d like to show off my place first ;). So how do I handle that without being childish?
Goodness, just last night we invited a couple over for dinner and she first tried to rename the day and then
suggested we go on a picnic. I said, “no we will have dinner at our house in the AC”. I was pretty bold but
realized she does this every single time. What day I ask for and what the activity is going to be gets all
mushed about with her. AND it is not lost on me that they are never free on a Saturday–as if they have or
are waiting for something more important to happen.
Mainly we spend less time with them and ask them less. It has seemed to work best with them if we
call the day of and ask if they want to meet for a happy hour, naming place and time.
Yes, super annoying.
comma, I wonder with the coworker if he wants his kids invited also…or maybe you already invited
all of them.
My pet peeve du jour: Folks, when you are going to a concert and we are packed in like sardines, please do NOT chat throughout the ENTIRE concert. I came to hear the music. I do not want to hear every detail of your lifelong relationship struggles. If you and your friend want to catch up so badly, go to a bar and gets some drinks and chat there instead.
@oregon101 …why do people do that? And then it’s so awkward to have to tell them “no”. It makes me feel like the bad person and why is that?
conmamma–simple–say “I want to show off my place!” That’s a very legitimate reason that most people “get”!
conmama, I have no idea why --it is like people can’t operate in a straight line.
I had a very passive aggressive GF (HAD) and no matter how simple the plan it was
10 phone calls with numerous changes, often finally cancelled by her. It was simply
exhausting and infuriating. Then I have a friend where we email a date and time and
that is it. Months ahead of time and only a text “see you Saturday” just before.
I think feeling bad is just because it is so confusing and they have involved you in their
little drama and complicated stuff. And only you see it, they don’t.
Bet that even if you just said, “sure!” they would still mix it up further.
I just told DH about this tonight. His advice was never say no, but say something like ( this is always thru email) " it’s a beautiful day on the lake, we are out, stop by!"
@conmama maybe I’m being petty or too sensitive. But when I get an invite turned around like the one at the lake house. I feel that it’s the passive aggressive invite, non-invite.
They are turning the responsibility of seeing them over to you. Instead of them, you need to make the specific plans. They’ll tell you when they are up, and you need to make the effort instead of them.
I think your H’s response was perfect.
I have an old friend who has a lake house near mine. I’ve invited her to my house, I’ve asked her if we could meet for lunch. I’ve asked if we could hang out for an afternoon. Her cottage is much closer to me than where she lives. I used to email her a couple of times a summer. It doesn’t happen unless I feel like I am bugging her. It’s ok, she’s busy with family and visitors. I now send a generic email that I’d love to see her and leave it at that. It’s just the lake house, if I’m in her hometown and she’s around we always meet. It’s just the cottage.
Yea, planning with one of my relatives is like that–it makes me crazy and is a major reason we rarely get together. I hate having my plans changed time and again by her (rsoecyally ic something “better” comes up. My kids like her kids, I’m happy about that but sure wish she didn’t make me crazy by constantly second-guessing me and herself. Argh!
@deb922 I think at this point, I’m not going to take the initiative anymore. I’ve mentioned it like 4 times…ive asked if they were going a certain weekend, and said if they are let me know we’d love to take them for a boat ride, etc. It just never seemed to work. DH said he is not leaving out lake to go to theirs kids lake. He’s just like that. I think if they would have come to ours first like I asked, he would go. But not this way, so now I have to defuse invites the best I can from them. Ugh…i hate this kind of stuff.