<p>And now for something completely different:</p>
<p>My pet peeve, slow walkers…people who walk really slow across streets</p>
<p>My pet peeve: People who don’t hold small children by the hand around cars.</p>
<p>Also: “irregardless”</p>
<p>You mean it’s not a word? ;)</p>
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<p>“Supposably” not. [How DO you do those smiley face things?]</p>
<p>SBMom: That is my pet peeve too! I once saved the life of a toddler girl whose Mom crossed the street eating an ice cream and left a two year old in her wake. All the bystanders screamed and praised me for a “good save.” The Mom just turned around and said, “thank you” and continued on her ice cream eating way. I see this every day and have started telling people to hold their children’s hands. My husband tells me I’ll get shot some day. I try to be civil.</p>
<p>My pet peeve is not so serious. It’s seeing people write without knowing the difference between “it’s” and “its”, and the the difference between “you’re” and “your”. aaaaaahhhhhh</p>
<p>My pet peeve is when clerks say, “have a nice day” instead of thank you. Or sometimes they say nothing at all and just hand you the receipt and change.</p>
<p>Your right on the money about that Hayden, at least we can agree on something. Its the pits! Irregardless, have a nice day :)</p>
<p>kathiep, what bothers me is when a clerk hands me my change, I say “thank you”, and they reply with “no problem”. </p>
<p>My forum pet peeve, though, is people who do not correctly spell the word <em>definitely</em>. Incorrect spelling, in general, bothers me.</p>
<p>I agree with the not holding the hands of small children making me anxious. I see it on a regular basis and have been known to report to neighbors when I see their nannies making this dangerous mistake.</p>
<p>Inattentive drivers are also bothersome, especially those who insist on speaking on their cellphones while driving. </p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t know so many things bothered me. I’m generally a very happy person. :)</p>
<p>My H’s pet peeve are waiters who upon presenting the bill say “pay when you’re ready”. He’d like to respond that 10 years or so would about do it.</p>
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<p>I’ve suspected for quite some time that “definitely” might be the most commonly misspelled word on Internet discussion lists. </p>
<p>Things like your/you’re and its/it’s drive me nuts, too. </p>
<p>But, then, like the author of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, I read hardback books with a pencil in hand, making corrections as necessary. </p>
<p>I hope none of your pet peeves is finding pencilled-in corrections in library books. ;-)</p>
<p>pet peeve
when restaurants pipe awful music in and it is so loud you can barely talk over it.
…at breakfast
…when it was quiet when you sat down
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it is more expensive than the place up the street that you wanted to go to, but there were too many people standing outside.
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you carefully order something that doesn’t appear to have dairy in it- but because you recently stopped eating dairy- grilling the server isn’t second nature yet and you forget.
Then it comes and it obviously has lots of cheese in it.
sigh :(</p>
<p>driver - LOL Another of my pet peeves is people who disagree on politics, and can’t respect each other as a result. You obviously don’t fit in that category !</p>
<p>My H’s pet peeve is probably, well, me. . . . . . .</p>
<p>Another pet peeve is people who wait in line and when they get up to the counter spend forever deciding what they want, or getting out the money, or havng these long conversations with their kids about what THEY want…drives me nuts…call me impaitent…okay I am really impatitient</p>
<p>CGM, absolutely. </p>
<p>How about the people at the airport, when you are lugging 300 lbs of suitcases, who just STOP in the middle of the path to look at the list of departure gates or whatever?</p>
<p>Arrrgh!</p>
<p>My pet peeve… and my family does this to me all the time, is to either (1) walk diagonally when I am next to them, essentially running me off the sidewalk, or (2) walk ever so slightly faster than me while talking to eack other (when I am in between them)… the next thing I know-- they are all in front of me and I have been squeezed out, and find myself a pace or two behind them. Then, If I catch up and stay on the end, they walk on an angle again and I am again edged towards the side of the road. Think they are trying to tell me something?? Oh… and my H, though I love him dearly, walks like a duck, with his feet pointing out at 45 degree angles. Wish he could aim his feet straight. (And to think, he’s not the one who runs me off the sidewalk).</p>
<p>People who don’t wave “thank you” when I let them cut into in my lane in the brutal suburbs-to-DC AM commute.</p>
<p>I really hate it when people use the word “anal” to describe the precison, compulsion, selectivity, vigilance…etc. of others. I find myself dismissing the content of nearly everything they say after that word. Freud is dead and beyond that, most people who use the reference have no idea what he was talking about!!</p>
<p>PS: I also really dislike irregardless, “very unique” and suposively (or the multiple variants thereof)…but I am not nearly as compulsive about those!</p>
<p>I can’t deal with TV commercials; I change channels immediately. </p>
<p>People driving 50 in the left lane (on the freeway) make me crazy.</p>
<p>On the phone: 1)Conversing with someone and someone interrupts them and you have to wait while they talk with someone else. 2) Automated answering recordings at businesses that takes hours to reach a real live person.</p>
<p>People who correct my grammar on line. Gosh darn it if I want to make grammar/spelling mistakes I will! </p>
<p>People who make out in front of my locker: You know some of us haven’t spent math class standing in front of lockers in a liplock</p>
<p>People who are late: I am anal, anal, anal. I hate lateness more than almost anything.</p>